The remit of the Scottish Fiscal Commission should be expanded to include independent forecasts of devolved tax revenues and examinations of the Scottish Government’s performance against its...
Implementing the Scottish Rate of Income Tax (SRIT) will cost up to £35m and 2.6 million people will be liable to pay it, the National Audit Office has revealed.
The poorest 10% of households pay the highest proportion of their gross income in taxes of any income group, according to an analysis by the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
A Conservative government would legislate to ensure that people earning the National Minimum Wage are permanently removed from paying income tax, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
Low-income families with children and the very well off are the two groups that have lost the most from the coalition government’s changes to tax and benefits for working-age people, the Institute...