I have often found myself asking this question, and today is no exception: just what is Evan Harris going on about? “While these proposals do raise significant amounts of revenue from high levels of wealth, this is less true of high incomes,” he said, adding he would ask for the change at the party’s conference… Continue reading Taxing times
Tag: tax-commission
Willy waving over 50p
It looks like we are set for a “war” in the autumn over the Lib Dem Tax Commission’s proposals to drop the party’s commitment to a 50p supertax. The Federal Policy Committee are insisting that removing it should only be an “option” for the party to vote on, while Ming is staking his leadership on… Continue reading Willy waving over 50p
Taxation Okey-Kokey
The Observer has been given a sneaky-peak of the Lib Dem’s Taxation Commission’s current thinking and it sounds good. 2p off the basic rate of income tax, paid for by increases in environmental taxation and “tougher tax rules for the wealthy”. By the latter, I’m taking it to mean, at least in part, to some… Continue reading Taxation Okey-Kokey