Councils have refused government demands to identify staff earning more than £58,200 a year because there are so many it would be an "onerous burden".

Start with taxing all incomes at the same rate – a worker on an average £26,000 is taxed £5,981, but someone earning the same in dividends pays zero. Those on the 50% tax band only pay 36% on their dividends. Bleedin’ ‘ell Polly! Don’t you know that (in effect) basic rate income tax is collected

Lawyers are earning "success fees" totalling £66 million a year for helping patients to sue the NHS, new figures have revealed.

I don't think earning about the same as Kenwyne Jones of Stoke City is cause for apoplectic outrage. - Mark Littlewood of the IEA on the UK political storm about the head of the world's sixth largest bank getting a bonus of something under one... meelion... pounds. (US readers may wish to read that again. A million, not a billion.) Stoke City is currently the 8th best soccer team in Engl...

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg appeared on BBC1′s Andrew Marr show this morning, and stuck up for the Coalition policy that there should be a £500 a week benefit cap: “It surely can’t be fair, can’t be right, that you can be earning more on benefits than someone going out and earning £35,000, which is

Following Boris Johnson's attack on Londoners in The Sun this morning, Ken Livingstone said; "Tory Boris Johnson is calling Londoners workshy and lazy when in fact they're the hardest working people in the world. He's completely out of touch with reality. "Boris Johnson has two jobs, earning him £400,000 a year combined, so it is little wonder that he is so out of touch about ...

The number of middle managers at town halls across parts of Britain has risen dramatically in the last financial year despite widespread public sector cuts and redundancies, according to new research.

Chancellor insists he will push ahead with controversial plans to axe child benefit for higher rate taxpayers but hinted that the bar could be raised, with only people earning more than £80,000 hit by the cuts.

The cut in child benefit for 1.5m higher-earning families could save the government £2.4bn a year.

Caixin does it's usual thorough job on corruption at China's rail ministry, starting with an enquiry as to how an official called Zhang Shuguang managed to afford an $860,000 home in California while earning just over two hundred quid a...