Taxation
Comment: Miliband’s support for the mansion tax marks return of Labour as a genuine alternative
Blogger Salman Shaheen welcomes Labour's pledge to bring back the 10p tax rate paid for by a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2million.
Obama’s fiscal cliff footwork saves US from new year meltdown
President Barack Obama and the United States Congress go right down to the wire as they only just avoid going over the fiscal cliff.
How can we fight child poverty without hitting people’s pockets?
Matthew Butcher argues, with Duncan Exley, that the Living Wage is the only way to reconcile the seemingly conflicting desires to end child poverty but also to decrease taxation.
Osborne starts to panic about the chance of a Robin Hood Tax
Owen Tudor writes about George Osborne’s panicky response to the Robin Hood Tax, with the chancellor looking increasingly on the side of the super-rich.
Miliband must stop spreading myths about benefit claimants
By Tim Nichols Ed Miliband’s speech contained some tremendously important and bold attacks on powerful elites that have helped create […]
Only quarter of voters want to scrap 50p tax
A new poll shows that just 25% of voters support the abolition of the 50p tax rate. Danny Alexander is on the right side of the argument.