The rich will pay up when prodded. So let’s make tax-collecting great again | Torsten Bell

Investing more in revenue services pays dividends in returns to government coffers, new US research shows

What do we want? More tax inspectors. When do we want them? Ideally a few years back, but now will do. Maybe not the most exciting protest song, but it does it for me.

My first job in the Treasury was for a very sexy team called Revenue Service Delivery, clamping down on tax evasion and avoidance by hunting those stashing money in Swiss bank accounts or pretending to be self-employed.