How ‘insignificant’ really is 50p tax revenue?
So did the 50p rate of tax – introduced by Alistair Darling in 2009 – really raise a “statistically insignificant” sum, as the Independent’s editorial put it?
So did the 50p rate of tax – introduced by Alistair Darling in 2009 – really raise a “statistically insignificant” sum, as the Independent’s editorial put it?
I won’t be playing the world’s smallest violin for those affected by the proposed 50p tax rate, and neither should you.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) yesterday made it official: high earners delayed their bonuses to take advantage of Cameron’s top rate tax cut.
This month’s labour market statistics continue the same pattern we have seen in recent months: small improvements in overall employment and unemployment but youth unemployment and long-term unemployment not going anywhere much.
Alex Hern further questions the letter to the Telegraph supporting the scrapping of the 50p tax rate.
Alex Hern defends the 50p tax rate against the economic know-nothings who would cut it to ‘boost revenue’ (their own)
As the evidence comes in that the 50p tax rate raises hundreds of millions of pounds a year, Alex Hern looks at what the new Tory line will be on the rate.
Alex Hern runs over the latest piece of bad Conservative economics to try and get the 50p tax rate for the richest in our society scrapped.
Left Foot Forward’s Shelly Asquith reports from London Mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone’s speech to the Labour Party conference.
The new report from the IFS – the Mirrlees Review – shows that the 50p tax rate may lose the Treasury money.