Tag: taxation
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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?
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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” –…
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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…
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From the FT today: A bond to raise up to £360m for transport, schools and other local services will be proposed by a north london borough as it looks for new ways to raise money. The “Barnet bond” would provide as much as half the £733m the London suburb says it needs to improve its…
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I’ve been going down the list of tax cuts that John Redwood is proposing. Scrapping inheritance tax, lowering corporation tax, raising the super tax threshold, restricting capital gains… to be brutally honest, I regard all of these as good things in principle, but even leaving aside the affordability issue, how can they be said to…