The run up to the budget is always frenetic. And now it’s been and gone and we know how debased the Tory’s thinking is. In
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I don’t always agree with Will Hutton. On this he was spot on, today: According to the IFS, 88% of the planned spending cuts lie
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George Osborne said in his budget speech this week: I regard tax evasion and — indeed — aggressive tax avoidance — as morally repugnant. I
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I have just received and share this communication: Eight anti-cuts protesters arrested in Fortnum and Mason last year were today found not guilty in the
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George Osborne claimed to cut the top rate of tax in the budget. But he didn’t. He made a new one. He announced that for
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In March’s Taxcast: Apple i-tax dodging, reclaiming Arab Spring country assets, the rich country club of the OECD and the ABCs of setting up letterbox
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Polly Toynbee is willing to stick her neck out. That’s why I admire her. I admire her motives. And courage. And of course she gets
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From Alex Singelton in the Mail: What a fantastic Budget. Richard Murphy, the pro-tax darling of the trade unions, is enraged by it. Indeed, I
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I’ve just listened to yesterday’s Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4 – on which I was a witness – again. Since it is broadcast live it’s hard to get
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