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How ‘insignificant’ really is 50p tax revenue?
So did the 50p rate of tax - introduced by Alistair Darling in 2009 - really raise a "statistically insignificant" sum, as the Independent's editorial put it?
50p tax
Memo to 50p tax trashers: Laffer Curve peaks at over 75 per cent
Alex Hern defends the 50p tax rate against the economic know-nothings who would cut it to 'boost revenue' (their own)
It’s official: the 50p tax rate raises revenue
As the evidence comes in that the 50p tax rate raises hundreds of millions of pounds a year, Alex Hern looks at what the new Tory line will be on the rate.
50p tax: Still a Tory obsession, still not that exceptional
Alex Hern runs over the latest piece of bad Conservative economics to try and get the 50p tax rate for the richest in our society scrapped.
Livingstone starts the mayoral race on policy, not personality
Left Foot Forward’s Shelly Asquith reports from London Mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone’s speech to the Labour Party conference.
The 50p tax debate: Are we taxing off our nose to spite our face?
The new report from the IFS - the Mirrlees Review - shows that the 50p tax rate may lose the Treasury money.