George Osborne will next week set out plans to fill the hole in the public finances by the end of this parliament, announcing steep tax rises and spending cuts designed to bring down record public borrowing

We now have confirmation that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is just guessing what he should do, he has admitted that his decision to increase the top rate of income tax from 40% to 50% was not based on any evidence or analysis but was a personal judgment. As the Director of the Adam Smith Institute, Eamonn Butler, points out in an article in The Times today, increasing rates of income tax, parti...

Yet more rich peeps say “tax me, tax me!“. “I would say to Merkel that the answer to sorting out Germany’s financial problems, our public debt, is not to bring in cuts, which will disproportionately hit poorer people, but to tax the wealthy more,” said Lehmkuhl. “We are always hearing about savings packages, but never

SENIOR civil servants are making plans for the SNP to introduce a 5 per cent cut in public sector spending – as well as tax increases – to bring the country's spiralling

A CITY MSP wants to use new powers proposed for the Scottish Parliament to bring in a tax on plastic bags.

Alister Heath of City AM has produced some more good topical figures to show that lower tax rates bring more jobs and more wealth and income to tax. Apparently those states in the US like

Significant tax rises and deep cuts in public services will be needed to bring Gordon Brown's unprecedented stock of Government borrowing under control MPs have said.

The Treasury is to announce plans to bring together income tax and national insurance payments in one single “tax take” figure, to make it easier for businesses to administer tax and individuals to see how much they are paying. Yes, this is a good idea. Simplification is anyway and now that we’re moving to non-contributory

Relatively right-wing economist Patrick Minford came up with his own suggestions for a flat-tax system a few years ago. As a simplification campaigner, there was a lot I liked about this. What stands out are these bits... --------------------------- A UK flat tax on consumption would bring the imputed rent on owner-occupied housing into the tax base and would allow the standard rate of income...

"Anybody who stands at the next election on a platform of tax cuts is asking for trouble." That’s what The Guardian has Ken Clarke saying this morning. It's an interesting one to come out with considering his leader, who is supposedly about to bring him back, recently pledged to abolish income tax on savings. The plot thickens.