"There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it will behold any one of us; to find fault with the rest of us."
- James Truslow Adams
“Bless this tiny little boat
And me who travels in it.
It stays afloat for years and years
And sinks within a minute.
And so the soul in which we sail,
Unknown by years of thinking,
Is deeply felt and understood
The minute that it’s sinking.”
-Leuning
Sometimes it’s hard to show confidence when we have insecurities about ourselves but I find so empowering to embrace that vulnerability
Trends in the Internal Revenue Service’s Funding and EnforcementCongressional Budget Office
HMRC published its tax gap data for 2018/19 yesterday. I have long criticised this annual debacle which has always published a number between £29bn and £38bn
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Why Humor Has Eluded Philosophers
Humour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind. – Aeon
Fourth Plutus tax fraud conspirator sentenced to jail
Fourth person jailed for Operation Elbrus
Devyn Hammond was last week sentenced in the Supreme Court of NSW to 4 years jail for her role in a syndicate that is alleged to have defrauded the Commonwealth of more than $105 million over three years.
It's a matter of fairness': squeezing more tax from multinationals
Rishi Sunak backs down over tax on employer-bought Covid- 19 tests
Ruling in EU Apple tax case due next Wednesday
Dutch MEP Paul Tang to chair new tax subcommittee
The Dictator-Run Bank That Tells the Story of America’s Foreign Corruption - The influence of BCCI
Scottish care homes owned by the Chinese state in tax havens
- Moving beyond poverty begins with tax justice (6 Jul 2020
- Exploring UK companies’ legal ownership chains to detect red flags and verify beneficial ownership information: Part 1 (6 Jul 2020)
- An informal history of TJN and the tax justice movement (6 Jul 2020)
- Pension Policy Institute Report: Tax relief on Defined Contribution pension contributions (29 Jun 2020)
- Pensions tax relief 'inflames gender and generational inequality' (29 Jun 2020)
- VAT has always been a stealth tax – it's about time we cut it (22 Jun 2020)
- HSBC faces £1.3bn action over film scheme Eclipse (22 Jun 2020)
- Carlo Ancelotti: Everton manager accused of tax fraud (22 Jun 2020)
- Rainy days: An audit of household wealth and the initial effects of the coronavirus crisis on saving and spending in Great Britain (22 Jun 2020)
- Coronavirus: Poorer households funding lockdown with debt (22 Jun 2020)
- Trump's Tax Cuts Were a Disaster (22 Jun 2020)
- Lockdown increasing UK's wealth divide, think tank report warns (22 Jun 2020)
- Covid-19, UK tax policy and climate change (22 Jun 2020)
- Mayor calls austerity an 'act of national self-harm' (22 Jun 2020)
- Revealed: Scottish property worth billions owned by tax haven (21 Jun 2020)
- UK and Europe renew calls for global digital tax as US quits (18 Jun 2020)
- Wife in £12m divorce case 'may face tax evasion charges' (18 Jun 2020)
- FCA fines Commerzbank London £37,805,400 over anti-money laundering failures (17 Jun 2020)
- Rules for Foreign Income Tax Opt Out Under White House Review (17 Jun 2020)
- Wirecard's $2B Fraud and 22 More Shocking Money Scandals (17 Jun 2020)
- Raising money from “the rich” doesn’t require increasing tax rates (15 Jun 2020)
- How much tax do the UK rich really pay? New evidence from tax microdata in the UK (15 Jun 2020)
- EU auditors: Money laundering a global threat (11 Jun 2020)
- Britain’s Slave Owner Compensation Loan, reparations and tax havenry (10 Jun 2020)
- EU countries lose €15 billion in tax revenues to counterfeiting (10 Jun 2020)
- 'Unscrupulous' firms targeting key workers with tax avoidance schemes (10 Jun 2020)
- Is a wealth tax the answer to the UK's coronavirus spending (10 Jun 2020)
- Scottish bailout puts Trump's golf resorts in line for £1m tax rebate (10 Jun 2020)
- EU Push for Corporate Taxes to Fund Budget a Tough Sell (10 Jun 2020)
- Olympic hero Sir Steve Redgrave used controversial 'tax avoidance scheme' (10 Jun 2020)
- EU Companies with ties to tax havens face new risk from DAC6 (10 Jun 2020)
- New Criminal Offence To Net Offshore Tax Dodgers (10 Jun 2020)
- Nearly 400,000 British companies evade anti-money laundering checks
Philosophers LLC. reviews Au Revoir, by Anastasia Gutting.
Jeff McMahan (Oxford) reviews The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised (Oxford), by Richard Kraut.
Scott Soames (Southern California) reviews Frege’s Detour: An Essay on Meaning, Reference, and Truth (Oxford), by John Perry.
ANGELO CODEVILLA: Scamocracy: How a fraudulent ruling class plundered our most precious inheritance. “Our ruling class transformed America’s regime by instituting a succession of scams, each of which transferred power and wealth to themselves. These scams’ blending into one another compel us to recognize them, individually and jointly, as the kind of governance that Augustine called ‘magnum latrocinium,’ thievery writ large. Thievery of power even more than of money—colloquially, scamocracy.”
We’ve had a chat with our barman regarding this and he’d like it to be publicly known that the ongoing instability of global recession that could render him unemployed at any moment, the lurking danger of COVID-19 potentially killing everyone he loves, the destruction of entire ecosystems due to climate change and the inability to find a bloody cheap pouch of tobacco in the inner-city has all made it quite difficult for him to find much joy in life at the current moment,” the response reads.
“He said, however, that he will try and make more of an effort to smile,” the hotel administrators added
China’s Great Firewall Descends On Hong Kong Internet Users Guardian
The Political Logic of China’s Strategic Mistakes Project Syndicate
China reverts to its dirty coal ways Asia Times
The Guardian: “At midnight on Tuesday, the Great Firewall of China, the vast apparatus that limits the country’s internet, appeared to descend on Hong Kong. Unveiling expanded police powers as part of a contentious new national security law, the Hong Kong government enabled police to censor online speech and force internet service providers to hand over user information and shut down platforms. Many residents, already anxious since the law took effect last week, rushed to erase their digital footprint of any signs of dissent or support for the last year of protests. Charles Mok, a pro-democracy lawmaker who represents the technology sector, tweeted: “We are already behind the de facto firewall.” Hong Kong is facing a dramatic decline of one of its most important advantages – a free and open internet – a defining trait that sets it apart from mainland China where Facebook, Twitter, Google and most major foreign news sites are blocked…”