{"id":3617,"date":"2009-04-17T12:43:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T10:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/17\/what-i-want-from-the-budget-2\/"},"modified":"2009-04-17T12:43:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T10:43:18","slug":"what-i-want-from-the-budget-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/17\/what-i-want-from-the-budget-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What I want from the budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having derided what KPMG wants from the Budget I guess it’s only fair that I publish my own wish list:<\/p>\n

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  1. A Green New Deal;<\/li>\n
  2. A General Anti-Avoidance Principle in UK tax law;<\/li>\n
  3. Minimum tax rates for those earning over \u00a3100,000, rising with income so that at \u00a3250,000 45% would equal 45% tax on all income, with no allowances given;<\/li>\n
  4. National insurance on all investment income over \u00a35,000 pa excluding pensioners;<\/li>\n
  5. Capital gains taxed as income;<\/li>\n
  6. Aggressive action from the Foot Commission on tax havens including sanctions on all UK dependent states that do not do full information exchange under the EU Savings Tax Directive;<\/li>\n
  7. A requirement that the accounts of all companies that are members of multinational groups that are filed with tax returns include those group accounts stated on a country by country basis, including intra-group transactions;<\/li>\n
  8. End of the domicile rule \u2014 funds to child poverty. <\/li>\n
  9. Ending of the tax office closure programme and increased vigilance in tax collection. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m sure I could refine it a bit. That will do for starters. No time to do links.<\/p>\n

    I’m not holding my breath. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Having derided what KPMG wants from the Budget I guess it’s only fair that I publish my own wish list: A Green New Deal; A
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