Watching George Osborne and Alistair Darling on Marr this morning, one couldn’t help but be struck by how Labour is defining the Tories on tax. Darling kept stressing that it tells you everything you need to know about the Tories that the main tax cut they are offering at this time is to inheritance tax. Now, this, obviously, isn’t quite fair. As Osborne said, the Tories wouldn’t...

There are a couple of noteworthy snippets in today's FT interview with George Osborne: the claim that the Tories may not take corporation tax as low as it is in Ireland; the outline of a "five-year road map" on business tax policy, etc.  But, I must admit, it's this passage which jumped out at me:    "[Osborne] says his Tory conference speech in October, whi...

George Osborne was facing a backlash over Conservative tax plans that may force major investors out of Britain and stifle attempts to revive the economy.

George Osborne has outlined a series of tax plans that will be announced at next month's emergency budget, at a CBI dinner.

George Osborne will next week set out plans to fill the hole in the public finances by the end of this parliament, announcing steep tax rises and spending cuts designed to bring down record public borrowing

George Osborne saved the 2007 Tory conference with a tax cut. He’s recalling that mood today, elaborating on the plans to cut corporation tax which – as James detailed a while ago – will be the backbone of his first budget. Now, you may think: we know all this. Osborne has said he’d cut corporation tax from 28p to 25p and cutting the small companies rate to 20p. He had prom...

George Osborne, chancellor, is to press ahead with plans for a levy on UK-based banks, in spite of G20 finance ministers at the weekend scrapping worldwide plans for a banking tax

A month ago Lib Dem Voice’s Alix Mortimer suggested it was high-time the Tories considered ditching their under-whelming shadow chancellor, George Osborne: My guess is that Cameron is wincing his way through the current crisis, burying his head in a cushion every time George goes on TV, and he’s planning the reshuffle. He hasn’t spent

A NEW poll appears to reveal public concern over the direction of the government's tax plans, particularly George Osborne's stated aim of scrapping the top rate of 50p

The government's £20bn tax giveaway will hit middle Britain and leave a tax bomb ticking under the public purse, George Osborne said today. Responding to Alistair Darling's pre-budget report, the shadow chancellor warned it would create a £1tn national debt and he branded a 0.5% increase in national insurance a "tax on jobs". Laying into the proposals, Osborne said that Gordo...