Cable and Clegg are already calling for 'em, Brown and Darling are dumping dogma to talk about helping Britain through the recession with tax cuts, Osborne and Cameron are going to announce their tax relief plan tomorrow. Tax cuts are the new black. Meanwhile over in Wapping, Danny Finkelstein said yesterday that Guido is "eccentric" in campaigning for populist tax cuts. Perhaps we have differing ...

And so we come full circle (almost), with a call for tax cuts for the working middle classes. Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to tax cuts per se, and firmly believe that government should not be spending money where individual choice might be more effective. However, promising tax cuts implies that you have a pretty good idea as to the role of government. I'm yet to be entirely convinced

Setting: The Future The government today announced that a new tax to be imposed on money gained from previous tax cuts. Speaking outside the Treasury, the Chancellor said: “After introducing our tax cuts last year we found that people had more money.  That increase in income led us to believe that we should tax it.  If we didn’t give

The Conservatives now have two whole policies: giving massive inheritance tax cuts to millionaires; offering tiny tax advantages for marriage*. But what values link these two ideas together? For example, Liberal Democrat plans to close tax loopholes for the richest, tax pollution and tax multi-million mansions will fund tax cuts of £700 for everyone on low and middle incomes (so you can make...

Times have changed, voters want the pendulum to swing back from spending towards tax cuts. Rumours are circulating in the Westminster Village that Gordon and Alastair are preparing to announce tax cuts. Which will, even if they are only rhetorical tax cuts, in a stroke make Dave and George look ridiculous as both Labour and the LibDems promise tax cuts and the Tories are left high and dry stranded...

The Conservatives now have two whole policies: giving massive inheritance tax cuts to millionaires; giving tiny tax bribes for marriage*. But what values link these two ideas together? For example, Liberal Democrat plans to close tax loopholes for the richest, tax pollution and tax multi-million mansions will fund tax cuts of £700 for everyone on low and middle incomes (so you can make your ...

The Obama administration is reviewing a compromise tax proposal that would drop tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans but introduce tax breaks for business

Leaking more than the Titanic after it hit that iceberg, the Government has been flagging up like crazy the tax cuts it will announce in tomorrow's pre-Budget speech by Alistair Darling. The centre-piece of the tax changes will be the reduction in VAT from 17.5% to 15%. However this reduction is temporary and it will go back up to 17.5%.  Also, corporation tax for small to medium sized b...

Tax cuts is the current political football, it seems. Each of the political parties are promising tax cuts, supposedly funded and competely unfunded - and the indeterminate. It is amusing how times change. Not so long ago, calling for a tax cut, however funded [or not], was viewed as tantamount to taking food from the mouths

Now Darling and his puppet master, Brown have spend the last 11 years rubbishing anyone who offers unfunded tax cuts. As soon as they run into a spot of economic bother, what strategy do they propose to save the country from depression? You guessed it... Unfunded tax cuts. Watching them squirm as they are read their own arguments about Tory cuts, back when the country could actually afford them, w...