“Jackets on? Jackets off? Shall we take our clothes off?” Mr Johnson said.
“We all have to show them we’re tougher than Putin.”
Sydney, Australia police arrest nine for scam calling and impersonating government agencies; took in $2.5 million
General Angus Campbell gives further evidence to royal commission, rejects 'profound systemic failure' for specific suicide case
Reuters Pulls A Fast One – But Internet Remembers
Piketty Calls For 'Participatory Socialism': $150,000/Person Universal Inheritance, 'Confiscatory' Income And Wealth Taxes
Air Quality Life Index, June 2022 Annual Update By Michael Greenstone, Christa Hasenkopf and Ken Lee: “During the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s economy slowed.
Administering Taxes Democratically?
The institute said that some files contain evidence that Babiš was an agent under the code name “Bures” from 1982. Babis, who is Slovak-born, has denied the claim.
Andrej Babis: Former Czech PM loses secret police collaboration case
- Gordon Brown says government lurching from ‘crisis to crisis’ and predicts corporation tax hike scrap (20 Jun 2022)
- Swapping stamp duty for land tax would push down house prices but push up apartment prices, new modelling finds (20 Jun 2022)
- Etsy paid just £128,000 in corporation tax in 2020 in the UK despite £160m in sales (19 Jun 2022)
- Windfall tax ‘seriously flawed’, says North Sea oil and gas producer (19 Jun 2022)
- Norwegian oil giant ‘threatens to ditch £4.5bn North Sea project over Rishi Sunak’s windfall tax’ (18 Jun 2022)
- Jersey Tax Shelter Leak Exposes Wall Street Trading Activities of Ghislaine Maxwell’s Family (17 Jun 2022)
- Hungary blocks EU deal on 15% minimum corporate tax (17 Jun 2022)
- McDonald's to pay France €1.2 billion to settle tax evasion case (16 Jun 2022)
- Tax scam investigation launched into American candy stores taking over London (11 Jun 2022)
- HMRC urges customers to leave tax avoidance scheme promoted by London-based firm (10 Jun 2022)
- Brits ‘want to takeover Caribbean tax haven to control wealth’ (9 Jun 2022)
- Household income inequality, UK: financial year ending 2021 (8 Jun 2022)
- Differing approaches to combating marketed tax avoidance schemes (7 Jun 2022)
- Income inequality in the UK (7 Jun 2022)
- Fossil fuel projects that qualify for Rishi Sunak’s tax relief ‘could create 899 million tonnes of CO2’ (6 Jun 2022)
- It's time to tax the dividends paid to foreign investors (6 Jun 2022)
- PwC told client it could cut Australian tax by $70m, court documents in privilege fight show (5 Jun 2022)
- A million to pay 60pc income tax within years (5 Jun 2022)
- “Lewis Hamilton avoided taxes on his $20million jet”– How Lewis Hamilton almost landed in trouble because of his private jet (4 Jun 2022)
- Wind farm and nuclear electricity could be exempt from windfall tax (4 Jun 2022)
Nieman Lab: ” The pandemic brought a bump in news consumption that now seems to be fading away, Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) found in its 2022 Digital News Report, out this week. RISJ surveyed more than 90,000 people in 46 countries about their digital news consumption, and found evidence of a potential “leveling off” in the numbers of people who will pay for online news. RISJ has released an annual digital news report every year since 2012. The research is based on online surveys conducted in January and February of this year; the researchers also conducted focus groups and interviews in the U.S., U.K., and Brazil. The topline findings of this year’s report echo last year’s: People in wealthy countries are paying for news, but that trend is leveling off. “Across a basket of 20 countries where payment is relatively widespread, 17% paid for any online news — the same figure as last year,” the authors note.
People are also increasingly avoidingnews. “The proportion that says they avoid the news, sometimes or often, has doubled in Brazil (54%) and the U.K. (46%) since 2017 — and also increased in all other markets,” the authors write. In the U.S., the increase is smaller: 42% of U.S. respondents said that they “sometimes or often actively avoid the news” in 2022, up from 38% in 2017.
As traditional news use declines, online news isn’t making up the gap Nieman Lab
Sergey Cherkasov, a Russian military intelligence official, is expelled from the Netherlands for attempting to begin an internship at the International Criminal Court in The Hague using a fake Brazilian identity. Cherkasov will now face a criminal trial in Brazil. (The Guardian) (Reuters)
EVERYTHING IS PROCEEDING AS HAYEK FORETOLD: How the West Accidentally Became Free and Rich — And Why It Might Not Stay That Way. Joseph Henrich accepts the Manhattan Institute’s $50,000 Hayek Book Prize for 2022 and gives a brief lecture summarizing the book that won the prize, The WEIRDest People in the World.
The lecture, like the book, is a brilliant synthesis of historical analysis and behavioral-science experiments around the world showing how Europeans and Americans became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous — what Henrich calls WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic).
His research, showing the influence of institutions like the Catholic Church and medieval market towns, guilds and universities, illuminates the economist F.A. Hayek’s long-neglected theory for the rise of the West, which Hayek attributed not to the Enlightenment but rather to a long and unplanned process of cultural evolution. (Full disclosure: I was the chair of the Hayek Prize jury that selected the book.)
