Labour is mad to pick a fight with the Tories on tax
This morning both Labour and the Conservatives are on the attack over tax. Or, to put it another way, this morning both Labour and the Conservatives are on the defensive over tax. Labour is claiming...
View ArticleThe state has no right to seize your assets without recourse to law – and...
For the life of me, I cannot understand how we could still be engaging in a public debate about whether HMRC should be able to dip into an individual's private bank account and take as much money as it...
View ArticleA flash of leg on tax may do the PM a power of good
From the Morning Briefing: subscribe here Ned Simons' profile of Nicky Morgan has reminded me of one of her more perceptive observations about politics:"It's 80% how you say something and only a tiny...
View ArticleThe PM wants to help families: let me tell him how
Sorry if I sound like a broken record, but it seems you can't say this often enough. And David Cameron has given me a perfect pretext for banging on again about the grossly unfair tax burden on...
View ArticleWhat £20bn of tax cuts tell us about Ukip’s priorities – and the Conservative...
Tim Aker, the head of Ukip’s policy unit, has been talking about tax. In an interview with Prospect, he sketched out some of his party’s plans. Here are the most significant, along with some...
View ArticleEnglish votes for English taxes is a recipe for revolution
"We have heard the voice of Scotland – and now the millions of voices of England must not go ignored. "So, just as Scotland will vote separately in the Scottish Parliament on their issues of tax,...
View ArticleWhy you should love immigrants, capitalism and big business
Conventional wisdom has it that Labour has an immigration problem – that being seen to take a less tough line on immigration than the Conservatives is killing Labour's election hopes. So Yvette Cooper...
View ArticleDavid Cameron did have a rabbit: tax cuts for the middle classes
The Prime Minister has just finished talking, and there is one major story – tax cuts for the middle classes. Some quick thoughts on what moving the threshold for 40p tax from £41,000 to £50,000 will...
View ArticleRevealed: the tax that David Cameron should be cutting first
There's something very strange about Britain's economic recovery. To put it simply, we've got amazing unemployment figures (today's only confirm the trend) but pitiful income tax receipts. Or, to put...
View ArticleThere are already calls for Juncker to resign. I hate to say 'I told you so'…
The European Commission is preparing to investigate Luxembourg over secretive tax deals allegedly offered to big corporations. France, Germany and the Netherlands are furious at the behaviour of the...
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