Tag: taxation

  • Zack Polanski has hit the ground running as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales. But are his policies to tax the rich widening the debate on inequality, or a mirage that will lead to greater disenchantment?

    The Polanski Dilemma
  • Are Conservatives serious when they bang on about the high marginal tax rate of people at the bottom end of the income scale and its symbolism as a failure of the “big state”, as David Cameron referred to on Thursday and William Hague repeated on Any Questions? I ask this because this “tax rate” –…

  • John Harris wonders why the Liberal Democrat party faithful seems so incapable of defining what the Liberal Democrats stand for, unlike the masterful Vince Cable. A clue may come in the fact that the party’s core message on the economy has changed in a significant way on at least eleven separate occasions over the last…