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We all love an announcement that there will be an announcement.

Delighted to see Richard Burgon MP drop his ridiculous calls for an annual Wealth Tax (never going to work), and instead say something different - "we should be taxing the wealthiest". Currently we do tax wealthy people a lot more, via the progressive tax system. And we have CGT

I'd just like to announce that it's been announced that something is going to be announced. Happy Friday everyone!

Whoopsie. Management 101 - don't give yourself arbitrary targets.

Did a trade deal happen today? Can't find any news on it!

In my experience there are perhaps less than 10 MPs that understand tax and economics well enough to make considered proposals about tax. Rayner isn't one of them. Reeves is not stupid, and ignored Rayner. Richard Burgon MP is perhaps the most ignorant. He is calling for taxes

She's going "further and faster" again. How fast can she go we wonder? By the way, when wages increase, the increases are paid by the people who buy the goods, e.g. the people who got the pay rises. Likewise when you increase taxes to pay for breakfast clubs, again, the cost

Alterantive headline: "Firms offers bonus to try and encourage staff to not miss the AI boat - that set sail over a year ago." hrgrapevine.com/content/articl…

My take is here: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/05/23/ang…

IR35: Has HMRC contributed to ITV Daytime TV demise? In the week that ITV announced it is making two hundred Daytime staff redundant in a bid to make cost savings, the company’s annual report and accounts for 2024 suggests that a £61m potential tax bill hangs over its head.

If only these Wealth Tax Campaigners could put some meat on the bones of their ideas, and tell us how they are going to solve the challenges that the UK's leading tax and legal experts documented in 2020 when considering a Wealth Tax. ukwealth.tax. In the 1970's

We really need a Taxpayers Bill of Rights. Read the story. Find out more here: taxpayerfairness.org

Duncan Barkes Thank you, Duncan. It was a fabulous experience. 🤩🙏And thank you so much John and Duncan for giving me your TA podcast platform to share the disturbing story of Gino's Contraband that every UK taxpayer needs to know about. What happened to me could happen to anyone ... and is

What a tremendous afternoon. Thank you so much John O'Connell of the TaxPayers' Alliance and Duncan Barkes for a lively podcast discussion about the astonishing case of Gino's Contraband. I'm very much looking forward to the podcast release on Thursday on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and

Darn. The UK could have funded the NHS for a whole year with his fortune.

Dust-pan and brush - meet the volcano.

In attacking the Mini Budget, Mel Stride sides with the failed Treasury Orthodoxy. Stride is a creature of the system. When he served alongside me as Treasury Minister, he always went along with officials - including on the Loan Charge and IR35, damaging the self-employed and

The First-tier Tribunal has just ruled in my favour in another FOI case, upholding my appeal against the Information Commissioner who backed the Cabinet Office refusal of my FOI request. The case involves Cabinet Office discussions about the release of files to The National Archives.

The Patriotic Millionaires UK recently wrote on their website that "80% of millionaires support a 2% wealth tax on people with over £10m" - which they claim would raise £24 billion a year. They can already make voluntary contirbutions here: gov.uk/guidance/volun…. With 80% of

The new shed I just had done.