Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown pledges to keep 20p basic tax rate
Gordon Brown says there will be a pledge in the next Labour manifesto to maintain the 20p tax rate.
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Gary Gibbon
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Faisal Islam
It’s squeaky bum time for the banks ahead of the budget
Ahead of the budget, we already have the start of a Dutch auction between the main parties on bank taxes that seeks to tap into enduring public anger for electoral purposes, writes Faisal Islam.
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How many non-dom peers?
Is Lord Paul right to say there could be 100 non-doms in the House of Lords?
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FactCheck: dodgy claims of 2009
A quick one from the archive: we cast our eye back over some of the most dubious statements made by politicians of all kinds last year, as debunked by FactCheck. Miscounting Gurkhas “What I can’t do, which is what some are asking me to do but the judge did not, is to grant every Gurkha…
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Faisal Islam
Tobin tax – a highly political move
A windswept beach. A university town. And a few hundred protesters dressed as finance ministers symbolically burying their heads sand. It’s a lot harder to protest against the G7 rich man’s club, now that it’s the G20. The agenda is somewhat more murky when it is China refusing to discuss climate finance, rather than the…
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Jon Snow
One year on, but what's changed?
So it’s been reported that a bank WE own is being investigated by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs for allegations of involvement in tax avoidance. This is probably the issue I have blogged about more than any other since Snowblog dawned – tax havens and tax avoidance, and the Channel Islands have never been far…
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Gary Gibbon
Lib Dem tax on mansions (and palaces) pleases activists
Although the Lib Dems have been lecturing everyone for years on the iniquities of property taxes, activists are pleased by the party’s new plan to tax those with expensive properties.