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Panamanorama
Day. A plane takes off. Our reporter looks manfully into the camera. “Tax haven,” he says. He walks down a sunlit beach towards a generic office building. “Look,” he says, “why would a lawyer have...
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Your Friday moment of zen…
I’m sorry to do this to you, but I have a terrible ear worm: Panamana (tune: “Ma na ma na”, the Muppets) Panamana Mossack Fonsecka Panamana Dave Cameron… Panamana And then George Osborne, the expats,...
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Legislative v administrative
There’s a hung parliament. Things are moving quickly: in my head, I imagine someone taking on a new job, running “legislative affairs” like Josh Lyman in the West Wing. Someone whose job it is to...
View ArticleInterlude
Let’s take a break from the Budget TIINs for a moment and look at the open consultations here. There are fourteen open consultations, most of them from last week. How, exactly, does anyone envisage...
View ArticleTill we have faces
Brexit has sucked the life out of the last three years of government and here we are, nothing done, no energy for doing. Here’s a thought. If a jury can’t reach a conclusion there’s no dishonour in a...
View ArticleThe Palace of Westminster
The government has published a “Government response to the report of the Joint Committee on the Draft Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill” What’s this about? Well, essentially the...
View ArticleMarking the government’s homework: the Brexit Impact Assessment
Impact assessment – no, don’t fall asleep yet – is a boring technical discipline. I know: I used to be the impact assessment specialist for HMRC and for all Treasury tax measures. The point is to...
View ArticleNew publication
You may have wondered where Tiintax has been for these past few months. You might have wondered if, like many other people in lockdown, I was simply sitting stupefied in front of daytime tv while...
View ArticleTesting
I know, it’s been a while, sorry. Basically I took a break from bloggery during the pandemic, and then WordPress “improved” their site so much that I couldn’t fathom how to do any of the basics of...
View ArticleWorkers of the world…
Disappointingly there was nothing in the Budget about the vexed issues of IR35 or of the rights and responsibilities of “workers”: those people with the intermediate status, neither employed nor...
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