The collection system that will lie behind the new system of personal pension accounts, due for introduction from 2012, should be opened up to other approved pension suppliers, says a report from the Royal Society of Arts

This article suggests that the personal allowance for income tax might be raised to £10,000. If so, that would be good as it would remove some low-paid workers from the tax system. However, why increases in personal allowances in the past have not been redistributive is because the personal allowance benefits all taxpayers - poor or rich. As such, unless it is married with an increase in higher r...

There are a number of people out there insisting that the solution to the banking system problems is to mutualise that system. If there were no greedy shareholders looking to profit then decision would be made purely in the interests of depositors and borrowers and in some manner all would be right with the world.

Nick Clegg has just launched ‘My Personal Guarantee’, a pledge that will run in leaflets and newspaper advertisements ahead of polling day. Here’s what it says: This is my personal guarantee that I will use all the support you give me on Thursday to deliver fairness in Britain. “We need a fairer tax system. I will use

Tory MPs will demand action to recognise marriage in the tax system by allowing spouses to transfer their personal allowances.

Another one of my polls has closed. This time I had asked "In your personal opinion, has Jacqui Smith abused the MPs expenses system?You replied:Yes - 97.5% (40)No - 2.5% (1)Not sure - 0% (0)Interesting, and frankly unsurprising data. All but one person who took part thinks that Jacqui Smith has abused the system, and despite assurances that the rules have not been broken nobody felt they

THE Tories' UK shadow health secretary wants Scotland to follow his plans for an insurance scheme for elderly care instead of the current system of free personal care.

Couldn't see Harold Wilson and Gerald Kaufman putting up with recent events here is perhaps why.------------- "The present system of small groups of civil service,political and personal advisers is flexible and easily adaptable to the changing requirements of a Prime Minister. If he had his own department, formal and structured ,his personal power and influence might well be reduced. A depart...

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, has today launched Labour's Health Manifesto, Your Personal NHS Guarantee. Labour outlines our plan for a better NHS. An NHS that is on the side of the patient, not the system.

Computer Weekly has the story: Nine staff have been sacked from their local authority jobs for snooping on personal records of celebrities and personal acquaintances held on the core database of the government’s National Identity Scheme. They are among 34 council workers who illegally accessed the Customer Information System (CIS) database, which holds the biographical data of