Over at Comment is Free now, a new article by me under the above title. The key argument is: Tax has been the elephant politicians have walked
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The IFS have published their budget commentary. I’ve looked at the 50p tax rate commentary. It says: – No administrative data on how much actually paid until
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Yesterday was the second biggest day for traffic in the history of this blog. Thanks. A few spent much of the day submitting many comments to the
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The Coalition made much yesterday of taking millions out of tax as a result of plans to increase the personal allowance in 2013 to £9,205.
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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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