Basic rate needs to be topped up; scotlandKeith Sinclair
‘The thought of HMRC having to deal with millions of extra taxpayers at the same time as distributing flat-rate payments to everybody does worry me and there will be a whole host of additional implications to think through,’ says Andrew Hubbard, a tax consultant at RSM. ‘But as a poli...
in 2008, the death rate of businesses surpassed the birth rate for the first time ever recorded. However, the number of billion-dollar startups is trending upwards. Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft are together worth $2.7 trillion and employ merely a fraction of the top comp...
The most common criticism of the universal basic income is its cost. But now, with the need for income support spiking and governments adopting a "whatever it takes" approach to spending to keep economies afloat, this argument is not compelling. The scale of the economic challenge is demonstrat...