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 last night welcomed reports that the International Monetary Fund is calling for two new taxes on the banks to pay for future bailouts.

Alistair Darling insisted it was “perfectly legitimate” for people to plan their taxes as fears are raised that the Treasury only expects to receive around one-third of the potential revenue from the new 50p rate for high earners.

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 government has gone completely and utterly mad: The Chancellor, Alistair Darling, is spending the weekend putting the final touches to a package of tax cuts and big increases in public spending. The measures, designed to revive the flagging economy, are to be announced in Monday's pre-Budget report. It is understood Mr Darling will say tax cuts will only be short-lived and taxes will...

Car users are set, yet again, to be the victim of tax hikes dressed up as 'green' fervour in Alistair Darling's first budget as Chancellor, due tomorrow. Darling is not just planning to press ahead with his 2p rise in fuel duty, despite fuel prices already reaching record levels, but cap it with punitive extra taxes on so-called 'gas guzzlers'. As part of a further shake u...

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

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,...