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Budget 2013: cut VAT on building repairs to boost the economy
Official figures released this morning show that Britain’s construction industry is under pressure. The good news is that it managed growth of just 0.9 per cent in the final three months of 2012, breaking a year-long run of decline. But January’s figures revealed a 6.3 per cent slide in output, putting the industry in danger [...]
By Simon Read | The Money Blog | Friday, 8 March 2013 at 11:05 am
Facts Evasion
The Prime Minister has changed his line. In his conference speech last month he said:
The rich will pay a greater share of tax in every year of this Parliament than in any one of the 13 years under Labour.
(I examined the claim here and here.) At Prime Minister’s Questions today he said:
The richest in our [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 28 November 2012 at 6:41 pm
The broadest shoulders, the greatest burden?
The Treasury has finally supplied an answer to my question about the basis on which the Prime Minister and the Chancellor claimed in their party conference speeches that the rich are paying a greater share of tax than under the previous government. I have written about it in The Independent on Sunday today.
George Osborne, in [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 28 October 2012 at 9:55 am
The Debate: Are cash-in-hand payments morally wrong?
Exchequer Secretary David Gauke sparked controversy this week after criticising homeowners who give workers cash-in-hand payments. But is it really immoral?
By Laura Davis | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 25 July 2012 at 10:17 am
The great Olympic tax swindle
With the country now on starters’ orders for the beginning of the London Games, the first winner has already been announced with the news that McDonald’s have become the first Olympic sponsor to refuse their Olympic tax break
By Simon Birch | Notebook, Olympics | Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 4:00 am
A quarter of Sunday Times rich list are Tory Party donors
The trade union subscription to the Labour Party for an individual member is around three pounds a year, which it is possible to opt out of and which is less than half the cost of a book of First Class stamps.
By James Bloodworth | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 14 June 2012 at 11:41 am
Nick Clegg: Charity tax U-turn means ordinary taxpayers will subsidise rich people’s donations
Clang. Another budget u-turn drops. All charity donations will now be exempt from the clampdown on tax avoidance.
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Thursday, 31 May 2012 at 12:35 pm
Britain? It’s quite well governed, actually
Pasty taxes. Granny taxes. Petrol cans. Queues at the pump. Chaotic NHS ‘reforms’. A looming debacle over changes to the House of Lords. Aircraft carriers which won’t, then will, then won’t again, be mounted with catapults. Embarrassing emails between Ministers and powerful press barons. The arrest of donors to political parties. It’s been a torrid few weeks for a government that had seemed for a while above the fray, but will probably now have to deal with years of unpopularity.
By Glen OHara | Eagle Eye, Opinion | Monday, 14 May 2012 at 2:29 pm
Could the Chancellor’s charity tax stop the flow of life-changing gifts to universities?
Debates around higher education range widely, from the very macro – funding and widening participation for example – to the power that degree studies have to enhance the lives of people who undertake them.
By Kate Hunter | Notebook | Monday, 9 April 2012 at 11:06 am
Why George Osborne’s fiscal policy has helped to deliver weak growth
Adam Posen’s assessment speaks very clearly. One of the reasons our economic recovery has been weaker than in the US is that the Chancellor slammed on the fiscal brakes too soon.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Wednesday, 28 March 2012 at 7:54 pm
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