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Second test post
I know, I know, boring isn’t it? But I’m just checking that I can post to the site from my phone as well as from my laptop. The site will launch officially (and with actual content!) on April 2.
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Blogging against disablism day 2012
As today is Blogging Against Disablism day I thought I’d take a break from looking at tax measures and, instead, give my personal experiences of disablism. Wait a minute, says the pedant in the corner,...
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A week may be a long time in politics, but in TAX???
So, it’s off with the union jack nail polish and back to work. A week in the States, a couple of days’ jet-lag and then the long bank holiday weekend… Did you miss me? I had a couple of emails from the...
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Guest Bloggery: Most Wanted
This is a guest post by Banderillero. Welcome! I must admit I did not pay a lot of attention to the list of Most Wanted Tax Fugitives when it was published. But I have just read an update from HMRC...
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Update
By the power of twitter, @GOVUK Where is the “Budget Suggestions” page for the 2014 Budget please? If it’s not up yet, when does it go live? — Wendy Bradley (@wendybradley) January 14, 2014...
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Autumn Statement of Get Knotted
They weren’t even trying, were they? Couldn’t be bothered even with the minimalist adjustment to the visual of getting a woman to sit in the “doughnut” around the Chancellor. You could kind of see a...
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Have your say…?
“Have your say on the Finance Bill” is the headline on the Parliament website. The Finance Bill went through its first and second readings in the Commons and is now to be scrutinised by the House of...
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The VATMOSS Threshold Paradox, Reasons Why Countries Are Wary & Why We Need...
If we’re to find a way forward to save the European digital economy – and every passing month sees yet more damage done – EU countries need to realise they can actually profit by taking small...
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Spending review
It fascinates me that there are people and organisations that don’t take twitter seriously. Although often it’s just a bit of fun (and occasionally a screaming pit of insanity), it’s also the place...
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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...
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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...
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