The Tax Payers' Alliance have a Green Tax Calculator. I'm not completely certifying the accuracy, but it's there to play with during the budget.

The Tax-Payers' Alliance have launched the online green tax calculator below. As their introductory article to this new gadget says:"[it] allows users to calculate, using their personal travel habits, household bills, and even specific make of car, the amount they are paying for green taxes and regulations.In particular, the calculator sheds light on the hidden price ordinary people are paying

… when the Chancellor of the Exchequer needs to hire accountants to work out how much tax he should be paying. Of all people, you would have thought that the Chancellor would understand the tax rules and be able to work out his own tax burden! It shows that: The tax system is too complicated, and/or The Chancellor

By Andrew Haldenby, Director, Reform. The Chancellor’s Budget should follow the example of Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain, according to Reform's new Budget briefing. The other heavily indebted members of the EU are already cutting their deficits by cutting the...

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

Find out how Budget measures will affect you with our calculator developed with accounting firm KPMG LLP (UK).

Chancellor Alistair Darling may struggle to raise the £7 billion he is hoping for from his budget tax hit on the rich the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.

Today, the TaxPayers' Alliance presents their new, online Green Tax Calculator which allows users to calculate, using their personal travel habits, household bills, and even specific make of car, the amount they are paying for green taxes and regulations. In...

By Dr Patrick Nolan, Chief Economist, Reform The Chancellor of the Exchequer faces a difficult task in putting together a Budget next week. Questions that the Budget will need to address include: · How can we convince the markets that...

Try the Brown Calculator. Not only will it get whatever sum you enter wrong (as Gordon Brown himself usually does) it will also present some interesting facts and the figures behind them, with Brown-like sounds and exclamations. This little gizmo was devised by the Tax-Payers' Alliance, and is an invaluable reminder of some of what Brown has done to this country during the past eleven years.