From the Guardian this morning: John Hutton says taxpayers can no longer afford to support the pensions of state employees (Report, 8 October). Unfortunately,
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The ConDems just don’t get the absurdity of their proposals on university fees. I’m not saying Labour did either (except in Wales and Scotland) but
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Ed Miliband is singing the right tunes: Ed Miliband has ruled out proposing fresh increases in personal taxation or cuts to middle-class child benefits as
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As the FT notes: Investors in eurozone bond markets stand accused of letting “animal spirits” affect their judgment on the risk of a European debt
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A new report from Global Witness, a coordinating committee member of the Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development of which Tax Research UK
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As Owen Tudor has noted on the TUC blog: Yesterday the IMF finally released its study on the financial transactions tax. The paper, a draft
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