Philip Green, the offshore tax dodger whom the coalition government appointed to look into government waste has reported to his political masters there is a "staggering" waste of tax payers money in the current system. (You have to admire the cheek of this man) Although it does seem a tad hypocritical of Phil, renown for dodging his own tax responsibilities by placing his companies off shore ...

THE UK government is committed to working towards a zero waste economy, and food waste was a significant part of its most recent review.

The government should do more to curb waste using tax as an incentive, a House of Lords committee has said.

The CBI, amongst others, is warning that taxes are going to have to rise to plug the yawning chasm that has opened up in government finances. The CBI is predicting a further severe deterioration in public finances amid a deep recession in which the UK economy will shrink by 3.3pc and unemployment will pass 3 million. To be honest, I've not read the CBI report, but if they are saying that that...

LABOUR'S UK environment secretary Hilary Benn has urged the Scottish Government to do more to tackle waste.

David Cameron has been quoted as saying he would not rule out tax increases because he could not be certain of the public finances in two years time. I accept this in part, but let’s face it; there has been a huge amount of information released in recent years outlining this government’s excesses and waste. Surely, David Cameron is not going to preside over a continued waste of taxpaye

Economy overdependent on government spending. Gordon Brown’ s Labour government is crowding out the private sector and in parts of the UK dependence on government spending  has now surged to more than 60% in some areas of England and over 70% elsewhere. As I tried to explain in this post the size of the government

In the PBR the Chancellor, at a stroke, doubled government debt to more than £1 trillion. The Conservatives warned at the time that this sort of economic recklessness would weaken market confidence in the UK economy. Figures released this afternoon appear to show this is already happening and as a consequence the market view of the risk of the UK Government defaulting on its debt has reached ...

The Lib Dems have read the polls and tested public opinion. They have been told many of us are fed up with high taxes and huge public sector waste, so they are seeking to position themselves as the waste and tax cutters. There is no evidence from local government that this is what they do in

Today is the twentieth anniversary of a piece of legislation the Conservatives would rather forget about: the Local Government Finance Act 1988. The Act introduced the ill-fated community charge (more commonly known as the poll tax) - a fixed rate local government tax payable by every adult in the UK regardless of income. Whilst exceptions were made for students and the unemployed, the charge was ...