If you had a fiver for every time a Tory speaker today has said ‘five more years of Gordon Brown’ you would soon be rich enough to start worrying about the 50p tax rate. All the speakers in the economy debate stressed how the country ‘cannot afford five more years of Gordon Brown.’ George Osborne talked about how the Tories had to win three battles---the battles over the pa...
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Spectator on 27th Feb 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
George Osborne will unveil an anti-recession package including some tax cuts, in a U-turn to allow the Tories to take the fight over the economy to a resurgent Gordon Brown.
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TheIndependent on 17th Nov 2008 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
A new 45% top rate of income tax will be announced by Chancellor Alistair Darling as part of a range of measures designed to kick-start the economy in his pre-Budget report.
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SkyNews on 24th Nov 2008 (via news.sky.com)
Readers of this blog will know I am not a fan of George Osborne. I try to like him; I really do. I try and pretend he will be a great Chancellor of the Exchequer. I want to believe it, but every time I get myself in to this wonderland, he says something to bring me crashing down to earth. Yesterday, he said that Brown's proposed income tax rate of 45% for the rich was difficult to avoid. Real...
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AndrewAllison on 21st Mar 2009 (via andrew-allison.blogspot.com)
George Osborne should "accelerate" plans to scrap the 50p higher rate of income tax and increase personal tax allowances to help the economy during the euro crisis, business leaders will warn the Chancellor.
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Telegraph on 10th Nov 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
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...
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Spectator on 27th Feb 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Shadow chancellor George Osborne admits the Tories would be unlikely to scrap a planned rise in the top rate of income tax.
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BBCPolitics on 21st Mar 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
George Osborne wrote a strident article for the Observer last weekend, in which he called rich tax evaders “leeches”. As James Forsyth reveals in the cover story of this week’s magazine, Osborne is not alone among Tories in hounding the ‘undeserving rich’ at present. James goes on to argue that the Tories are ‘becoming particularly worried’ about the ...
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Spectator on 2nd Sep 2011 (via spectator.co.uk)
Conservative MPs have warned George Osborne that he faces a major rebellion if he increases the rate of capital gains tax to more than 25 per cent.
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Telegraph on 4th Jun 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
THE CHANCELLOR George Osborne was facing calls to abandon his plans to drop the highest rate of income tax after one of the world's wealthiest men called for governments t
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Scotsman on 15th Aug 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
Did I blink, or did George Osborne promise greater central control of local councils? That, at least, is what his eye-catching promise to freeze council tax bills for two years appears to suggest. It is a little difficult for Osborne, under pressure as he is to demonstrate a real difference between the Tories and Labour on the economy. A year ago, he managed to reverse Tory fortunes - and send Lab...
