Professor of Tax and Personal Finance at Aston University, UK. Director of @CPFW_Aston. Chair of @TaxResearchNet.
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Today is our annual conference @CPFW_Aston. We will be exploring various of our projects on ethnic minority business fin resilience, pensions gaps and our co event hosts, @MoneyPensionsUK, will be sharing new results from their latest UK adult survey, all to circa 150 people!
Excited to join the #BFF2025 panel on exploring AI & Poverty today in Birmingham. Exploring together how AI could be a power for good to improve financial inclusion and how we might implement this in practice in a city like Birmingham
Another day of interviewing & filming for our Aviva Foundation funded EMPOWER project exploring financial resilience in ethnic minority family led businesses. A series of really interesting case videos on this work will be released at the @CPFW_Aston annual conference on 12th Nov
Really pleased to announce that the new 2nd edition of my Comparative Taxation - Why tax systems differ book with international authorship of Chris Evans, Me, Robert Ricketts and Yan Xu has been released! See tinyurl.com/comparativetaxat…
Excited to be attending the education day of the @TaxResearchNet 2025 Annual Conference hosted by the University of Nottingham - listening to the latest innovations in teaching tax from delegates attending the event from all over the world
Spent a fun hour today recording a podcast on our harmful gambling work as a Centre (@CPFW_Aston ) with Birmingham City Council and their tenants - particularly focusing on the risk this creates of homelessness. Due to be available in early October. aston.ac.uk/research/bss/abs…
Getting some fascinating insights this week from a range of great ethnic minority led businesses detailing how financial resilience forms part of their evolving business creation activities.
So exciting to see another of our graduating cohorts this year! Huge congrats to our students and much thanks to my amazing team who have seen them through their four years to this successful conclusion!
6⃣|Congratulations to all @AstonUniversity accounting and finance graduates in ceremony #6!
🎓The group included those receiving master's and bachelor's degrees and diplomas
#TeamAston
A fun morning at the @SocialPolicyUK conference this am chairing a distinguished panel discussing the tax changes of the Labour government over the last year. Much thanks to our panelists @emma_nomics , Fran Bennett, David Byrne & Adrian Sinfield
As the @SocialPolicyUK annual conference draws to a close today, I was delighted to chair a symposium for the Tax and Social Policy Group exploring tax changes over the last 12 mnths under Labour - and what more needs doing - big focus on persisting inequalities and tax on wealth
As @CPFW_Aston we are also involved in another session today at the @SocialPolicy conference in York- this time a tax and social policy session on national/social insurance funding - looking at how the patterns of social insurance charges changed in the UK and across the OECD
Two conferences in one week this week! Now in York at the @SocialPolicyUK Annual conference where the @CPFW_Aston team is leading three symposium - 2 on pensions tomorrow(Hayley) and one on the tax policies so far of the Labour government on Friday (me)
Great to get a name check from Alex Director of Aviva Foundation at the @NESTInsight conference today for the @CPFW_Aston project they are funding exploring financial resilience amongst ethnic minority business owners - testing actionable innovations
Pleased to be joining the @NESTInsight 2025 Annual conference today in London with a focus this time on wider business and economic benefits of action to address low financial resilience. Exploring several potentially innovative solutions.
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A National Audit Office (NAO) report found that @HMRCgovuk has underestimated the level of noncompliance by wealthy individuals after the U.K. tax authority collected far more revenue from that cohort than expected.
More from @santhiegoundar: taxnotes.co/4klYggZ
As an Advisory Panel member I am pleased to be involved in the launch today of the shiny new QAA Subject Benchmark in Accounting.
A completely rebuilt standard that re-examines what the future could be for this subject as a degree topic.
qaa.ac.uk/subject-benchmark-…
Panel was very capably led by
@ballantinejoan (Ulster)
@ProfGregStoner (Glasgow)
And
Prof Anita Krishnan (Southampton)
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Really useful graphic explaining some of the key misunderstood issues linked to Inheritance Tax
Inheritance Tax is much-discussed, much-feared and much-misunderstood.
Most SHOULDN'T worry about it, as only 94% of estates ever have to pay it.
And even if you DO have to pay, it's still possible to legally avoid huge swathes of it.
More info: moneysavingexpert.com/tips/2…
ALT This bar chart is titled "Your Inheritance Tax exemptions". It shows how much you can pass on free of Inheritance Tax. The first bar shows the £325,000 basic Inheritance Tax exemption, which everyone gets. The second bar shows how you get an additional £175,000 on top of the basic £325,000 exemption, if you are passing on your primary home and estate to direct descendants, such as children or grandchildren, meaning here you can pass on a total of £500,000 tax-free. The third bar shows how you can pass on one million pounds in total, if you are married or in a civil partnership and you're passing on everything to your partner – as they will inherit both your assets and your unused Inheritance Tax exemptions.
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So what was the tax scheme that bankrupted Frankie Dettori, and who is the unnamed adviser who sold it to him?
And why should we feel (slightly) sorry for Dettori?
Quick thread.
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As I said to @BBCBreakfast government *isn’t* proposing reform. It’s cuts.
The @DWPgovuk has a genuine plan for reform to help more people get support, healthcare & work when they can.
@hmtreasury driving the opposite. Cruel & counterproductive cuts for short term savings.
🗣️ "We are very worried and appalled"
Our Director of Policy, Research & Impact, Helen Barnard spoke to @BBCBreakfast about the UK government's plans to cut vital disability support.