It’s a rare moment that Matthew Sinclair of the Taxpayers’ Alliance and I agree on something – but we did on the fact that the
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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 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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My answers – all I admit researched between 9.00 and 9.45am this morning – are on the Guardian web site. It’s not less than £840 million. It could be
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The Welfare Reform Bill passed last week, As a result there is now a cap of £26,000 a year on the benefits a family can receive, wherever they
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The Lib Dems mansion tax is, let’s be honest, a Lib Dem bodge. It’s a simple tack on to council tax. It’s crude. The evidence
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For those at the Lib Dem conference on Friday, I’m taking part in a debate on whether Liberal Democrats should promote corporate taxation within the deficit reduction strategy,
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Action Aid has issued a press release today saying: Ahead of the most important austerity budget in a generation, the government plans to open up a huge
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Ryan Bourne of the Centre for Policy Studies published a rather nasty little blog the other day under the title ‘Rachel Reeves, Jo Swinson and
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