25 April 2008     The Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP Chancellor of the Exchequer HM Treasury 1 Horseguards Road London SW1A 2HQ     Dear Alistair   I`d appreciate an urgent response to some of the questions which have arisen in the ten percent tax saga plus a comment on the processes. ...

Chancellor Alistair Darling today pledged further action to plug tax loopholes after claims of tax avoidance were levelled at one of the banks bailed out by the Government.

Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, who called for Alistair Darling to step down, says there are no short cuts to chancellor's job The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, told a disappointed Hay festival crowd today that he did not want to be chancellor of the exchequer under a Labour government, despite calling on Alistair Darling to step down. Asked if he would step in if Gordon Brown...

The measures the chancellor may take to help Britain emerge from recession On Wednesday, Alistair Darling will present his first budget since Britain went into recession. On the basis of what has already emerged from the Treasury, here are some of the announcements he is expected to make: Public sector borrowing: Much worse than forecast in last autumn's pre-budget report. Darling is expected...

The Treasury was last night seeking to dampen speculation of a huge tax giveaway next week after the latest official figures showed that Alistair Darling will deliver his pre-budget report against a backdrop of rapidly deteriorating public finances. In the wake of the first October deficit in 14 years, officials dismissed suggestions that the chancellor could announce a £30bn package - w...

The Chancellor will deliver the Pre-Budget Report next Tuesday (9 October 2007). Speculation is rife that there is a General Election on the cards. If so, the Report will be all the more interesting for what it leaves out, rather than what it says. Gordon Brown may have handed over nominal control of the Treasury to Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, but only the very naive would assume that the la...

Britain's highest earners face paying a new 45 per cent top rate of income tax which is to be announced by the Chancellor Alistair Darling in the preBudget Report.

Alistair Darling has announced a £20 billion package of tax cuts designed to boost the British economy in his preBudget report balancing them with tax increases for middle and higher earners.

Alistair Darling has already had to start backtracking on the measure announced in the Pre-Budget Report - aka the emergency budget. The Chancellor was forced to backtrack on a key element of his Pre-Budget Report (PBR) on Wednesday after he admitted that the Treasury had got its sums wrong and raised the duty on spirits by

The chancellor, Alistair Darling, yesterday promised further action to stop corporate tax abuse when he was challenged by MPs over allegations of "cynical tax avoidance schemes" by Lloyds bank. But he would not be drawn on whether the government knew about the alleged schemes before bailing out the bank. Darling's pledge followed the Guardian's revelation that HM Revenue and Customs was ...