Demonstrators set fire to cars and barricades in the middle of the Champs-Elysées, with police firing tear gas and water cannons in response. President Macron has refused to back down over the tax increases, insisting it’s part of his strategy to combat climate change.
“Be kind to your kids, they choose your nursing home”. It’s this sentiment that best sums up some new ideas being touted today aimed at bridging Britain’s yawning inter-generational wealth gap. As millennials stuggle with high housing costs, less job security and lower pay, older peopIe often hang on to substantial sums of accumulated wealth.…
Torsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation, and Conservative MP Neil O’Brien discuss inter-generational fairness. They were in charge of policy for Ed Miliband and George Osborne prior to the 2015 elections.
Gary Gibbon
People close to the PM say he was fed up seeing his father’s face linked to unsavoury business practices, wanted to defend his father and felt he personally had nothing to hide.
In a surprise move, the Chancellor tells MPs that his much-criticised plans to cut tax credits to working families are to be abandoned entirely.
Gary Gibbon
The former prime minister Gordon Brown passionately defends the tax credit system he created, but is less willing to pass comment on Jeremy Corbyn and his suitability as a future Labour PM.
Gary Gibbon
The Institute for Fiscal Studies finds it is undoubtedly the case that tax credit recipients in work will on average be worse off as a result of the budget changes
Gary Gibbon
The chancellor stole some of Labour’s policy clothes in his latest budget announcements, but his tendency to favour old over young has not been altered.
Prime Minister David Cameron’s stockbroker father died leaving assets offshore in the tax haven of Jersey, a Channel 4 News investigation can reveal.
Non-doms are the villain of the piece, according to Labour’s latest election pledge. Who are they and are they really dodging massive tax bills?
Coutts & Co Ltd, the private banking arm of RBS, is being investigated over allegations that its Swiss operation helped wealthy clients evade tax.
Siobhan Kennedy
HSBC’s two bosses, Stuart Gulliver and Douglas Flint, are about to be appear in front of the Treasury select committee. But what of former chairman Lord Stephen Green?
In the wake of revelations of tax evasion at the bank’s Swiss branch, HSBC Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver tells MPs his complex pay arrangements “had no tax purpose”.
The Swiss financial authorities have revealed that the banking giant HSBC has been reprimanded twice in recent years under anti-money laundering legislation.
The Labour party received hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of consultancy help from an accountancy firm accused of promoting tax avoidance.