25 April 2008     The Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP Chancellor of the Exchequer HM Treasury 1 Horseguards Road London SW1A 2HQ     Dear Alistair   I`d appreciate an urgent response to some of the questions which have arisen in the ten percent tax saga plus a comment on the processes. ...

CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling will use his Pre-Budget Report later this autumn to step up action on tax avoidance and tax havens, a Treasury minister said yesterday.

Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, who called for Alistair Darling to step down, says there are no short cuts to chancellor's job The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, told a disappointed Hay festival crowd today that he did not want to be chancellor of the exchequer under a Labour government, despite calling on Alistair Darling to step down. Asked if he would step in if Gordon Brown...

CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling was forced to admit that Labour has dropped its controversial proposals for a "death tax", during the first of the pre-election television

The chancellor, Alistair Darling, is preparing to admit that tax will need to rise after the next election as borrowing projections emerged showing the public finances in a worse state than previous estimates had shown. Darling will say that "adjustments" will have to be made, though it is unclear whether these will be slated for 2010 or 2011. Yesterday the Treasury refused to deny reports that it...

Full details of Alex Salmond's meeting with the Chancellor Alistair Darling have now emerged and, according to the Treasury, far from being summoned to a meeting at the Treasury Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond invited himself! What happened, according to Mr Darling's aides was this: The chancellor was due to hold meetings at the Treasury with George Osborne and Vincent Cable,...

CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling was campaigning in Dundee yesterday, weeks after announcing a tax break for the computer games industry in his budget.

Gordon Brown is working on a "nuclear option" Cabinet reshuffle which would see Alistair Darling replaced as Chancellor The Sunday Telegraph has learned.

Alistair Darling the Chancellor has refused to rule out future tax rises after admitting that Government borrowing will have to rise this year.

A new top rate of income tax for those earning over £150000 has been announced in the Budget by Alistair Darling the Chancellor.