Comments on: Capital gains tax could be Cameron’s first big failure

By: Turning the right wing argument against tax rises for most able to pay on its head « My Political Ramblings

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:21:12 +0000

[...] any rise in CGT (even though this rise looks as though it will be modest to say the least) - Left Foot Forward have a good blog about the regressive impact these measures would [...]

By: mike

mike — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:09:40 +0000

it will be so watered down it will have no impact

Cable will lose out to Osbourne

once again proving Lib Dems have no real influence just a fig leaf for a right wing pro cuts, pro business anti worker millionaires Government

Government by the rich
For the the Rich

By: Rashidi Abu Bakhar

Rashidi Abu Bakhar — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:23:14 +0000

I think the failure is Labour’s, it created this a situation where private equity barons have a marginal rate of tax lower than a supermarket cashier.

Any move to increase the rate of CGT is bound to be more progressive, therefore I can’t see the failure.

I suspect a compromise, the rate will rise but there will be allowances. It’s a funny old world where Labour cuts CGT for City spivs and the Tories raise it.

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Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:49:16 +0000

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By: Why the ConDem’s prefer Canada for Sweden… « My Political Ramblings

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:05:35 +0000

[...] that the government will have in introducing any form of re- distribution within the tax system (Left Foot Forward have a good article on how regressive capital gains tax is). As stated before, even the income threshold rise is regressive as the LibDem’s measures for [...]

By: House Of Twits

House Of Twits — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:05:22 +0000

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By: Jane Watkinson

Jane Watkinson — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:58:09 +0000

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Trakgalvis — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:49:58 +0000

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By: Adam Douglas

Adam Douglas — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:19:02 +0000

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