Tag Archives: Taxation

Welsh government could gain powers over taxation

By Ed Jacobs | Published: April 22, 2013

The prospect of the Welsh government and assembly gaining significant new powers over taxation has taken a step forward following a declaration by one UK minister.

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Comment: Miliband’s support for the mansion tax marks return of Labour as a genuine alternative

By Salman Shaheen | Published: February 14, 2013

Blogger Salman Shaheen welcomes Labour’s pledge to bring back the 10p tax rate paid for by a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2million.

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Obama’s fiscal cliff footwork saves US from new year meltdown

By Caroline Mortimer | Published: January 2, 2013

President Barack Obama and the United States Congress go right down to the wire as they only just avoid going over the fiscal cliff.

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How can we fight child poverty without hitting people’s pockets?

By Guest | Published: December 8, 2011

Matthew Butcher argues, with Duncan Exley, that the Living Wage is the only way to reconcile the seemingly conflicting desires to end child poverty but also to decrease taxation.

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Osborne starts to panic about the chance of a Robin Hood Tax

By Guest | Published: November 9, 2011

Owen Tudor writes about George Osborne’s panicky response to the Robin Hood Tax, with the chancellor looking increasingly on the side of the super-rich.

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Miliband must stop spreading myths about benefit claimants

By Guest | Published: September 28, 2011

By Tim Nichols Ed Miliband’s speech contained some tremendously important and bold attacks on powerful elites that have helped create and perpetuate today’s social and economic inequalities. Despite much to welcome it is important understand why many may be upset today. Minutes after taking applause for his rejection of Murdoch during the phone hacking scandal, [...]

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Only quarter of voters want to scrap 50p tax

By Will Straw | Published: August 1, 2011

A new poll shows that just 25% of voters support the abolition of the 50p tax rate. Danny Alexander is on the right side of the argument.

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Osborne’s tax cut is not as big or fair as you think

By Will Straw | Published: March 23, 2011

Today’s newspapers seem certain that George Osborne will cut personal taxes by £320 per person. But the move is not as big or fair as you think.

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Per-flight tax pledge just another per-day coalition failure

By Natan Doron | Published: March 10, 2011

There has been yet another coalition u-turn – this time over the per-flight tax pledge, reports the Fabian Society’s Natan Doron.

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The truth behind the Mail’s warning that 50p tax will cost £350bn

By Will Straw | Published: March 10, 2011

The Daily Mail this morning reported that “Labour’s 50p tax rate ‘could cost the country £350bn’, Osborne warned”. The claim was calculated on the back of a fag packet.

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