City bankers, senior civil servants and company directors were in the government's sights yesterday after Alistair Darling announced plans to increase the amount of tax paid by people earning six-figure salaries. The moves to raise the rate of tax paid by those earning more than £150,000 and scrap personal allowances for £100,000-plus earners, widely seen as a return to ol...

Caveat: I am not an economist, I just like playing with numbers. Consider an economy with 3 classes of people. Class C: 50% of the population, earning an average of $50,000 per year, and spending all of it. Class B: 49% of the population, earning an average of $100,000 per year, spending $95,000, and investing $5,000. Class A: 1% of the population, earning an average of $1,000,000 per year, spendi...

One interesting feature about the timing of the election is that we get paid this weekend, and the higher earners amongst us (essentially, anyone earning above £100,000, and especially those earning above £150,000) are about to receive what may in...

Two Westminster City Council Officers earn more than the Prime Minister, according to figures released by the Council, with a further 20 senior Council officers earning over £100,000 a year. Yet, Westminster Conservatives have done nothing to rein in top pay at a time when the Government is calling on the Council to make £52 million of service cuts over the next two years, including sa...

Grant Shapps, rising energetic housing minister but friend-of-the-earther, proposes that people earning over £100,000 a year in council accommodation should have to move out, to make it available for the poor. We know high earning Bob Crow on £254,000 a year pays £150 a week for his 3-bed home in Woodford Green. And Socialist dinosaur Frank Dobson, an ex-Cabinet minister earning ...

I have two friends earning £100,000 or more. Both are going to be hit by the 60% marginal tax rate on income between £100,000 and £150,000. Both called me yesterday in my capacity as their tame political wonk. They are extremely angry about the budget, not just the counter-productive, class-war spite but mainly the tissue of lies Alastair Darling had the Czhutspah to call a "forecast" (3.5% gro...

The poverty industry is big business and those within it require an endless conveyor belt of OTT headlines to keep their snouts in the taxpayer trough. "There were calls today for child poverty to be tackled as the Government confirmed that almost 100,000 children in Northern Ireland are still living in deprivation. 100,000 children - wow, that's a huge figure! And all fantasy, of course. The...

The number of UK council bosses earning £100,000 or more rose by 14% last year, according to a campaign group.

Labour Councillors have urged Westminster Conservatives to adopt Communities Secretary Eric Pickles' call that Council staff earning over £100,000 a year should have their pay reduced by 5% - 10%. Speaking at the recent Conservative Party Conference, Mr Pickles said that Council staff earning more than £150,000 a year should take a 10% pay cut while those on more than £100,0...

The BBC paid hundreds of its staff more than £100,000 last year despite its leaders' claims that the corporation is run efficiently.