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Second, requiring the Government to consult on public access to information about trusts.

Last week an investigation from Andy Summers et al found that the real owners of 1000s of UK properties remain secret, many hiding behind trusts.

Briefing👉static1.squarespace.com/static/5e4a779…

I think the bona vacantia division get involved? Anyone know? (Ques is about UK land owned by overseas entity that's been dissolved without having disposed of the land) gov.uk/government/pub…

Listen again here, with Adam Hodge and Andy Summers on why the current bill won't solve the problems of land secrecy and dirty money

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Read the new analysis by Arun Advani Andy Summers Anna Powell-Smith and César Poux, which finds significant flaws in laws meant to prevent oligarchs from hiding their wealth.

🔗ow.ly/eyRs50PHozg

Great timing for this research by Andy Summers et al. The government could close these loopholes, especially regarding transparency for trusts, in the economic crime bill ammendments this week.

'Privacy' is used to hide from tax & anti-corruption.

theguardian.com/business/2023/…

How much tax do the rich really pay? Arun Advani (@WarwickEcon) Andy Summers and Helen Hughson utilise data on UK taxpayers to highlight inequality in effective average tax rates and the impact of lower rates on tax revenue.
Read their thoughts below: doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/…

Wow 🥳 Honored and thrilled that our paper has won the IIPF - International Institute of Public Finance Young Economists Award!

Thank you to the organizers and my amazing co-authors Arun Advani & Andy Summers.

Check out the paper if you're curious about migration responses to taxes: docs.davidburgherr.com/AdvaniBurgherr…

📢PSA: billionaires are not leaving Norway to escape a tiny tweak to the wealth tax (with Emma Chamberlain Andy Summers)

taxjournal.com/articles/wealt…
#TaxTwitter

This is really important from Anna Powell-Smith, Arun Advani & Andy Summers

theguardian.com/business/2023/…

Well well well...

'No evidence that scrapping non-dom status would cost UK £350m, Treasury admits'
opendemocracy.net/en/non-dom-sta…

This is really cool. Causal evidence showing that access to administrative government data improves the quantity of research economists produce, but also increases policy impact (measured by citations in government & international org docs).

Way more the UK could do in this area

Exciting to see the maps from our paper on the UK's global economic elite (w/ Arun Advani, Mike Savage, Andy Summers) featured in this #LSEFestival exhibition, alongside Charles Booth's famous poverty maps!

Link to paper if you're curious: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…

If it exists, Treasury should publish their analysis in full so we can all see their methodology rather than leaking titbits to press. Happy to stand by our data/methods. Imagine if we'd said here's our number but we won't tell you how we got it!

Being serious about growth is not really compatible with idea that our tax system is basically fine as it is...

I'm worried if Labour actually thinks this. Whatever your view on levels of taxation, current structure is a mess and clearly a big drag on economy.

How should top incomes be taxed? Presentations from the IFS residential conference dedicated to this question are online now. Great insights from Helen Miller Stuart Adam Arun Advani Andy Summers and others.

ifs.org.uk/publications/i…

Just on those pension changes: looking at the breakdown of number of beneficiaries🧮, their incomes💰, and where they are🗺️ is fascinating

Too bad researchers aren't allowed to share results based on public use admin data for 10days. Am sure journo+policy folk are happy to wait

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If you care about measuring poverty & inequality, you need to get your head round this Office for National Statistics (ONS) consultation, which is open for another week assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

Big idea = leaning more heavily on real data used by the govt, & merging the surveys we rely on now

Programme for IFS residential conference- speakers include Jim Harra Helen Miller Giorgia Maffini Arun Advani Andy Summers Dan Neidle Ray McCann @J Stuart Adam Nimesh Shah jathers_HMRC Chris Sanger , OECD reps (+ others not on Twitter).
ifs.org.uk/events/ifs-res…

Strange headline BBC News (UK), which doesn't line up much with the content

A short 🧵 with some notes on errors made in the article, and the evidence on what we do/don't know about #nondoms responding to #tax reform

#TaxTwitter
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Just under two weeks left to apply for this #econ #predoc position in London, working with me,Andy Summers + team on questions of #inequality and #tax
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