The Treasury Select Committee is issuing a report in the morning on the tax gap. I gave evidence at the hearings that resulted in this
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The 50p tax rate will raise more than £6.7 billion according to HMRC’s data
Perhaps the most important part of my new TUC report on the 50p tax rate is my new estimate of the tax that this rate
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Is 50/50 fair? The truth about the 50p tax rate
My new report for the TUC is entitled ‘Is 50/50 fair?’. It does, of course, discuss the 50p tax rate. The report can be read here. The key conclusions are
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The TUC and the 50p tax rate
The TUC has issued a new report by me tonight on the 50p tax rate. As they say about it: People earning £150,000 or more
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Take my word for it, say the Swiss
Why our pension schemes and arrangements do not work
I note there are those griping on this blog and elsewhere that any change in pension rules by the government will make pensions even less affordable than now and undermine the credibility of
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Without more credit we won’t get out of the recession – so let’s finally nationalise RBS now
Vince Cable is right on this: Vince Cable has warned Britain’s banks that the economic recovery is “being imperilled” by a “yawning mismatch” between demands
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A major pro #NHS rally – and the BBC ignores it
As the Guardian reports, last night: Thousands of nurses, midwives, doctors, physiotherapists, cleaners, porters and other NHS workers were thought to have attended [a rally
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