A super-tax on bankers' bonuses is expected to form the centrepiece of Chancellor Alistair Darling's pre-Budget report.

Lordy: A new “super-tax” on bank bonuses will be introduced immediately, the chancellor announced today, in an attempt to stop banks using profits to pay large bonuses to bankers. Alistair Darling attempted to appease critics who feared the tax on bonuses would prompt defections from the City by insisting the 50% tax rate on bonuses of more

Alistair Darling the Chancellor has called for a change in the banking culture to stop executives being paid massive bonuses while presiding over failure.

Alistair Darling is preparing a crackdown on 'extraordinarily high' bankers' bonuses when he makes his pre-Budget report this week, but is expected to reject a windfall tax on bank profits

Chancellor Alistair Darling says a one-off 50% supertax on large bankers' bonuses will "not actually raise that much" money.

Alistair Darling is set to announce a new higher rate of income tax on top earners, it was reported tonight. The chancellor was said to be unveiling the plan for a 45% top rate in his pre-budget report tomorrow. But the new rate, to be levied on those earning more than £150,000 a year, would not be introduced until 2011 - after the next general election. The strategy would mean the proposal ...

Alistair Darling indicates there will be no back-tracking on the new higher rate of income tax of 50p on earnings of more than £150,000.

Alistair Darling indicates there will be no back-tracking on the new higher rate of income tax of 50p on earnings of more than £150,000.

The government and opposition were at loggerheads last night over claims that the chancellor's changes to the tax system would affect not just the super-rich but middle-income Britain too. On the same day Alistair Darling acknowledged that those earning over £40,000 will pay more tax through the half-point increase in national insurance from 2011, independent analysis conducted by t...

A one-off tax on bankers' bonuses is expected to form the centrepiece of Alistair Darling's pre-Budget report - the last before the general election.