Tag: tax
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Zahawi’s Tax ‘Carelessness’
Nadhim Zahawi is the Conservative Party Chairman and previous Chancellor of the Exchequer who this month paid around £5 million in tax, which included a 30% penalty from the HMRC for underpayment of previous taxes. To understand why Zahawi received this tax penalty we need to go back to the year 2000 when Zahawi co-founded…
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Tax avoidance – supporting evidence for the Marxist Perspective on Crime
One of they key ideas of Marxist criminologists is that the Law is made by the property owning Capitalist class and serves their interests. (NB You might like to review the perspective by reading this long-form post on the Marxist theory of crime more generally before continuing…) The issue of tax avoidance, which means legally bending…
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How to Improve Work in the United Kingdom
Below is my summary of chapters 6-11 of the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, which deals with what needs to be done to make work better for more people in the UK. Executive summary: we need to deal with the following areas: Legal issues – we need greater clarity in the law pertaining to…
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Philip Green, the Collapse of BHS and the Continued Relevance of Marxist Theory
This is a useful documentary on the role of billionaire Philip Green in the collapse of British Home Stores, which demonstrates the relevance of some key concepts within Marxism. British Home Stores was one of the best known high street retail stores in Britain for many decades, employing thousands of people, but in 2016 it went…
