That's how I felt when I heard that the budget due in two weeks was not going to be a "big give-away". The news came from no less an authority than the chancellor himself - speaking tonight to my BBC colleague Hugh Pym. Given that the government is legally committed to making £57,000,000,000 worth of tax rises and spending cuts to deal with Britain's budget deficit, only the econom...
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NickRobinson on 11th Mar 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
The chancellor today confirmed plans to introduce a new 45% tax rate for high earners and said he would be making other changes to the way income tax is paid. Announcing his pre-budget statement to MPs, Alistair Darling said that from April 2011 those people earning more than £150,000 a year would face a new tax rate of 45p in the £1. The move will affect the top 1% of incomes. Darling...
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Guardian on 24th Nov 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has published proposals towards a Green New Deal budget, ahead of the Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report next week. Dr Lucas co-wrote the seminal Green New Deal report, and was advised by some of her co-authors, including Richard Murphy, Director of Tax Research LLP, and Colin Hines, Co-Director of Finance for the Future, on her new budget plans. The report, &quo...
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GreenParty on 21st Nov 2008 (via greenparty.org.uk)
Alistair Darling was embroiled in a row with the Tories today over opposition claims that his pre-budget report will penalise anyone earning more than £19,000 a year. The chancellor denied the claim, saying that only those earning more than £40,000 a year will end up losing out when all the tax changes mentioned in yesterday's statement are taken into account. But the Tories defen...
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Guardian on 25th Nov 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling will lay bare the dire state of the UK finances today, with a Budget featuring tax rises, huge public borrowing and plans to sell off assets including the Royal Mint.
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WalesOnline on 22nd Apr 2009 (via walesonline.co.uk)
THE Chancellor today announced plans to restrict tax relief on pensions for people earning more than £150,000.
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Scotsman on 22nd Apr 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Those earning over £150,000 will lose tax relief on their pensions, the chancellor has revealed.
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PoliticsCoUk on 22nd Apr 2009 (via politics.co.uk)
BBC Economic Editor Robert Peston can be an aggravating egotistical making-not-breaking stories kind of fellow. Guido has an exclusive of his own. With ex-Tory Leader Michael Howard muttering and grousing about the BBC wunderkind. Possibly fishing for briefings from government sources and by implication Peston wittingly or unwittingly helping the tax payer and the saver to the best deal. There are...
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ChrisPaul on 8th Oct 2008 (via chrispaul-labouroflove.blogspot.com)
A Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman has said the chancellor is making the Budget statement as late as possible in a bid to demonstrate that some of the government's financial crisis measures are working.
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ePolitix on 20th Apr 2009 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
The Chancellor is to announce in his pre-Budget report he intends to raise the top rate of income tax in the future, the BBC learns.
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BBCPolitics on 23rd Nov 2008 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Vince CableThe Chancellor should have cut income tax to make the tax system permamently fairer, say the Liberal Democrats Commenting on today's Pre-Budget Report, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor, Vince Cable said: "The Government acknowledges that the UK tax system is inherently unfair, but then announces that it will hit those struggling to make ends meet with yet higher tax bills by incr...
