A delightful little typo: Gross income pain in all taxes (%) That’s their heading for “gross income paid in all taxes” as a percentage of household income by decile.

I do mind paying for Elliot Morley's phantom mortgage, I do mind paying for both of Alastair Darling's homes to get done up, I do mind paying for Tory MPs' duck houses and I do mind paying for Michael COnnarty's £250 alarm clock. But I don't mind my taxes being used to pay for an odd wreath here or there. The outrage over these wreaths is one that is beyond me. I ful...

Middle-income households are receiving an extra £40billion a year in benefits compared with a decade ago but are paying it all back again in higher taxes, according to a think-tank.

New Labour promised not to put up income tax to get elected. So instead of in-your-face direct taxes, Chancellor Gordon Brown gave us new, indirect, Stealth Taxes and he abolished tax concessions. His attempts to fund New Labour's Fat Government Policy have savaged the pensions and savings industries and had cost the nation the equivalent of 16.5 p in the pound on the basic rate of income tax by 2...

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

I have perhaps been guilty of extolling the merits of replacing all existing property/wealth based taxes with Land Value Tax or replacing the entire Welfare State with a Citizen's Income scheme, so today, let's look at slimming down The State and simplifying/flattening The Big Taxes - Income Tax, National Insurance, VAT and Corporation Tax - i.e. taxes on enterprise, work and investment....

New Labour promised not to put up income tax to get elected. So instead of in-your-face direct taxes, Chancellor Gordon Brown gave us new, indirect, Stealth Taxes and he abolished tax concessions. His attempts to fund New Labour's Fat Government Policy have savaged the pensions and savings industries and had cost the nation the equivalent of 16.5 p in the pound on the basic rate of income tax...

At last. The truth is out. The man who's bankrolled the Tories for much of the past decade and has consistently refused to answer questions about his tax status has finally come clean. Michael Ashcroft is a "non-dom" - in other words he's not been paying British taxes on his non-UK earnings throughout the time he's been central to the Conservatives campaigning. Why, some will ask, d...

Writing from NYC we get some woman complaining about how low taxes are in the US. My response there. Yes, the federal income tax rate is 35%. Add the NY State income tax of 8% and the NY City rate of 4% and you’re at 47%. This isn’t a low income tax rate by anyone’s

Conservative chief whip at the time of William Hague's leadership agreed a deal with the government that allowed Lord Ashcroft to avoid paying UK taxes on most of his income