@EdConwaySky is blocked

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @EdConwaySky.

  1. The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. Chart from the IMF:

  2. Family says playwright Sir Arnold Wesker known for 'Chicken Soup With Barley', 'Roots', and 'I'm Talking About Jerusalem' has died aged 83

  3. I’m doing a live Facebook q&a about the IMF’s Brexit warning. Tune in at

  4. CPI inflation may still be below 1% but house price inflation is 7.6%, acc to the . Over 10% in some regions:

  5. CPI inflation rises to 0.5% in March, core CPI up to 1.5%. Both stronger than expected. Here’s what contributed:

  6. Two key datapoints in a tax return: tax paid & earnings. Increasingly this political saga seems to be more about the latter than the former

  7. Big day for economics today. UK CPI data out at 09:30, then the IMF’s World Economic Outlook (its assessment of the global economy) at 14:00

  8. Then again, the Boris Brexit column was perhaps the most important single newspaper column in years, so perhaps a good deal for the Tgraph

  9. On the basis of Boris Johnson’s tax return, he gets paid almost £6 a word for his Telegraph column. For background, that’s a LOT

  10. Boris Johnson earned more in 2014/15 than David Cameron, George Osborne, Jeremy Corbyn & John McDonnell put together

  11. George Osborne paid more in tax last year than Jeremy Corbyn earnt

  12. On face of it, no obvious evidence of tax avoidance on any of the tax returns submitted by leading UK political figures. End of story?

  13. Jeremy Corbyn just published his full tax return (as opposed to the main figs). £71k earnings, £19k tax. Key box:

  14. Who would have thought that the "Budget for savers" was given by a man with £3 in interest income:

  15. :"Aspiration and wealth creation are not dirty words"

  16. The Osborne tax return points out that Chancellor’s family trust is not offshore

  17. Chancellor’s £45k of dividend income (from the family firm, presumably), is almost two times the average UK salary

  18. Chancellor’s tax return showed he earned £199k in 2014/15. Just shy of PM’s £200k. Paid £72k tax

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·