The government admitted today that 50p tax rate payers alone did more than £6 billion of tax avoidance on one income tax ruse alone. But
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I think the Guardian very clearly shares my view of Osborne’s budget – as their editorial in tomorrow’s paper makes clear. I quote just a
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The budget Osborne has offered today includes some massive tax giveaways. There’s almost a billion a year to big business on top of the controlled
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The OBR and government is saying that the cost of cutting the 50p rate to 45p is just £100 million a year (here, page 50).
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I have written extensively on the 50p tax rate and came up with the biggest estimate published on how much the Revenue would raise from
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The Budget report includes the following paragraph: 2.207 Personal service companies and IR35 The Government will introduce a package of measures to tackle avoidance through
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I have only just managed to get anywhere near blogging on the budget due to demands of broadcasters so for a moment I’ll stick to
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I suspect I will get time to blog this afternoon – but during the budget I’ll be making my comments on what is happening on
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It’s forecast we’ll get a 7% stamp duty on properties costing more than £2 million today. The problem with that is it perpetuates a bad
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