Spanish Prime Minister Sánchez challenges the EU #deregulation push ➡️ "cautions against reducing the competitiveness agenda to deregulation and quick fixes" ➡️ a “truly successful competitiveness strategy”, cannot sideline social cohesion or the Green Deal in the name of regulatory simplification"

Forcing half a million people to leave their homes and then destroying their homes is ethnic cleansing. Why are you just sat here watching? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The UK followed Netherlands in revealing the 'side by side' deal - exempting US multinationals from key elements of the global minimum tax - has lost it 25% of expected revenue. Now South Africa has announced a revenue reduction of *75%*. h/t @icrict.bsky.social www.treasury.gov.za/documents/Na...

People who are not tax resident in the UK should not be allowed to donate to UK political parties. Companies should not be allowed to donate to UK political parties. No one should be allowed to use crypto to donate to UK political parties.

As Italy approves a decree to reimburse gas plants for carbon costs and gas prices jump 80%, it’s worth recalling that in 2018 both Italian and Spanish power prices were tightly linked to gas. Since then, Spain has largely decoupled, mainly thanks to renewables. Italy hasn’t.

Life's all about priorities.

ACTUALLY it is more likely than I thought that I am followed On Here by prospective PhD students, because the market isn't just kids it is people who (like me) did a PhD later in life. Fed up with practice or NGO work or whatever? Do a PhD with me!!

Seems vanishingly unlikely that I am followed On Here by prospective PhD students but ... look! you can do a PhD with me as your supervisor: www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

“The key idea is that instead of public revenue being raised by taxing income from labour or economic activity [it should be] raised by taxing wealth.” 🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"When we talk about #WomensRights, we are talking about them - when we talk about #TaxJustice, we are talking about changing the conditions that shape our entire lives." - Carolina Finette on the women who raised her in Brazil & the fiscal policies shaping women’s lives. bit.ly/4l6upux

Especially as it was reported at the time that the source of the story was a PR company working on behalf of a wealth management firm.

Extraordinary that the Telegraph is refusing to tell Ipso how its story about imaginary couple Al and Alexandra Moy and their non-existent children Ali, Harry and Barry got published.

One major story slipped out with today's OBR Forecast, and without any public comment: 🌎A global tax carve-out for US multinationals, pushed by the UK and G7 to appease the US, is expected to let corporate giants off over £2bn of tax by 2028/29. That's £700m a year 🧵/1

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"When the state is growing weak, the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity." -- Rousseau, Social Contract, 2.5

Mark Ruffalo: "Tax the rich... They can handle it, trust me."

Fiscal consolidation lowers real output, raises the unemployment rate and increase income inequality. Contractionary effects stronger during recessions; supports the Keynesian view that periods of weakness are not suitable for consolidation efforts. Blog summary of our research:

An incredible retraction by the Daily Telegraph today. They have apologised for publishing an article last year headlined: “We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t afford to go on five holidays.” The entire story was fabricated; the family did not exist.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

🚨 The International Foreign Bribery Taskforce led by the FBI & partners in Australia, Canada, New Zealand & the UK, has adopted the Tax Justice Network's Financial Secrecy Index & Corporate Tax Haven Index for corruption risk assessments in cross-border investigations. bit.ly/4aLZMav

I wonder how many of the wealthy westerners fleeing the gulf are leaving migrant worker maids, nannies, drivers and other staff behind.

1/7🧵 New paper "Too Much Finance Redux" with Jean-Louis Arcand and Enrico Berkes — a follow-up to over a decade of work on whether financial deepening can go too far. Here's the story: @gvagrad.bsky.social

"He cannot use a phone. He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.”

UK government approach to migration is curbing the economically active and ramping up the proportion of those it denies the right to work. Not hard to imagine this might eventually reverse the fact that migrants contribute more in taxes, and receive less in benefits. Would *that* be a success?

If you still think the billionaire class and the super rich earned their money fairly and squarely, you would be wrong. The U.S. tax code did most of the work for them, Read what else Patriotic Millionaire Todd Oppenheimer had to say here: craftsmanship.substack.com/p/the-craft-...

Economic inequity hasn’t occurred because the wealthy are any smarter than everyone else, or working any harder. It was caused by a series of policy decisions that have steadily made life easier for the wealthy, and harder for most working people.

Joel Ryan, head start administrator: "WA low income households pay 13% in taxes while highest pay only 4%" Says without funding from Millionaires Tax, there will be cuts to child care that supports working parents and keeps economy strong.

Ends by saying: "to my fellow millionaires, none of us built our wealth alone, we benefited from the system funded by tax payers. Taxes are the foundation of a society. Pass this bill" 🔥 #WALeg

Great thread on the effort to introduce a wealth tax in Washington

Five days left to apply for the finance summer school vol. 3 👇

Great thread from our allies at @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social on yet another scare story of a tax-led exodus that turns out *not* to involve an exodus, and with no evidence of tax as a cause. Who'd have thought?

Another day, another scare story… Once again research from a Wealth Management firm—dutifully amplified by national newspapers— is encouraging lower taxes on the rich. Here’s 3 reasons why the in‑front‑of‑the‑paywall headline & synopsis (yet again) don’t match reality. 🧵1/11

there's a nugget here which helps to explain Brown's character and why he was so incensed by the allegations against Mandelson from their time in office

🚨The political effects of X's feed algorithm, in Nature: " .. initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship."

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today I publish Who Owns Scotland 2025, an annual analysis of landownership across rural Scotland. The most significant finding is the continuing trend over past 15 years of fewer and fewer owners owning more and more of rural Scotland. andywightman.scot/2026/02/who-...

Water in a time of water bankruptcy - couldn't help think of Elif Shafak's 'There are rivers in the sky' while reading this www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Excellent reporting. And once again the question: why don't we simply insist on transparency of ultimate beneficial ownership as a precondition of market access?

Two very big things here: 1) since sanctioning of Rosneft and Lukoil, the largest exporter of Russian crude is an entity called "Redwood Global". It SO HAPPENS that they share an e-mail server with a group of Azeri traders who EU sanctions officials believe are pals with the chief exec of Rosneft.

The Economist making itself look ridiculous again. 🤷‍♂️

This is great!

majority-Black countries. The great Caribbean thinker Eric Williams wrote that “slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.”

"The OECD was created in 1960 by a core membership of European & N American countries, w/the specific aim of making sure that the rest of the world had no say over int'l tax rules. As Dean makes explicit, time & again the motivation was racism – & in particular, the desire to limit the power of...

Many small financial centres have had it with being battered - whether by extreme climate events, or by the racist structures of international tax. In this piece for IFC Review, I look at the opportunities that the process presents. www.ifcreview.com/articles/202...

And zero in the UK, No2 market

Alex Karp, CEO of Trump-enabling tech firm Palantir, proudly says it's "the first company to be completely anti-woke." They also seem pretty anti-paying-their-damn-taxes. Palantir's annual report shows it paid zero federal income taxes in 2025 on $1.5 billion of US income. itep.org/palantir-pay...

✨We are seeking a #Treasurer (#NonExecutiveDirector) to join our Board. A key governance role providing strategic financial oversight, safeguarding integrity & strengthening accountability. If you are dedicated to advancing #TaxJustice & ready to make a global difference, apply: bit.ly/4aJt615

A YouTube channel called VORA has posted a video which is a complete rip-off of the work @stevemenary.bsky.social has done on how illegal sports betting operators are using FIFA+ live football streaming. Pure theft. Zero credit. Just fishing for clicks at the expense of a proper journalist.

A United Nations committee empowered to review complaints against the U.N.’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has dismissed allegations of antisemitism against Francesca Albanese as being based on disinformation.

"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI. AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.