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17 Oct 18
The Scottish Government has been warned against further raising the top rate of income tax, which would create greater divergence in the tax system north and south of the border.
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12 Oct 18
The government should look beyond income tax, National Insurance and VAT to find funding for the NHS, a tax campaign group has argued.
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11 Oct 18
Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay has set out plans to consult on a discretionary local visitor tax ahead of the draft budget.
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11 Oct 18
The UK government must be tougher on multinationals so they pay their “fair share” of tax and contribute to the public services their employees use, Margaret Hodge has told PF.
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10 Oct 18
An annual levy based on the up-to-date value of a property should replace council tax and stamp duty, a think-tank has urged.
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10 Oct 18
Last week’s draft Welsh budget was the first to include Wales-specific income taxes. Guto Ifan of Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre argues that this new fiscal context demands an...
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9 Oct 18
Nearly two-thirds of people in the UK would like to see public spending increased even if that means higher taxes, a survey has revealed.
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5 Oct 18
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has written to the chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs concerned only a “fraction” of online fraud VAT was being clawed back.
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4 Oct 18
CIPFA and the Institute for Fiscal Studies recently hosted a round tabled debate on the questions and issues thrown up by the government’s fair funding review. Vivienne Russell reports.
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2 Oct 18
Greater fiscal devolution, commercialisation and students paying council tax were all mooted solutions to squeezed local government funding, at a Conservative Party conference fringe session...
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1 Oct 18
The government will secure a Brexit deal that will create a ‘dividend’ to keep taxes low and support public services, the chancellor told the Conservative conference today.
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25 Sep 18
The government must make tax more popular to properly fund social care, a prominent academic has told the Labour conference.
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18 Sep 18
Four of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies could be avoiding paying about $3.8bn in corporate tax, Oxfam has warned.
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11 Sep 18
The debate over Scotland’s economic future has become increasingly febrile in the wake of the blueprint for independence published by the SNP’s Sustainable Growth Commission.
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7 Sep 18
Business rates are broken and deter companies from investing to boost productivity - abolishing them would bring benefits to the public sector as well as enterprise, argues Lib Dem Lord Fox.
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6 Sep 18
Scottish income tax yielded £0.5bn less than predicted in its first year under Holyrood control due to a smaller than anticipated pool of high earners, according to new analysis.
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6 Sep 18
Three-quarters of adults in England back free personal care for over 65s, and the majority think this should be funded by tax hikes, a survey has found.
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3 Sep 18
Abolishing business rates and taxing land values instead would benefit businesses in 90% of English local authority areas, a Liberal Democrat report has claimed.
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9 Aug 18
The UK has pledged to help Ethiopia transform its tax system and become less reliant on aid, the Department for International Development has announced.
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3 Aug 18
Online retail giant Amazon’s UK tax bill reduced last year despite higher profits, which has been called “shameful and wrong” by a union head.
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30 Jul 18
Councils and other government bodies are “over-zealous” and “uncompromising” in the way they pursue financially vulnerable people over unpaid debt, MPs have said.
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25 Jul 18
The third phase of business rate retention pilots will go ahead with just a 75% retention and the ‘no detriment’ clause scrapped, the government has announced.
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23 Jul 18
The debate about local government finance needs to be broad and radical, the Local Government Information Unit has said.
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12 Jul 18
Politicians need to grapple with questions of taxation and user charging if public services are to be funded sustainably, former home secretary Charles Clarke told the CIPFA conference yesterday.
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5 Jul 18
Nine in 10 councils think increased tax is crucial to stabilising the adult social care sector, council leaders have said.
17 Oct 18The Scottish Government has been warned against further raising the top rate of income tax, which would create greater divergence in the tax system north and south of the border.
12 Oct 18The government should look beyond income tax, National Insurance and VAT to find funding for the NHS, a tax campaign group has argued.
11 Oct 18Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay has set out plans to consult on a discretionary local visitor tax ahead of the draft budget.
11 Oct 18The UK government must be tougher on multinationals so they pay their “fair share” of tax and contribute to the public services their employees use, Margaret Hodge has told PF.
10 Oct 18An annual levy based on the up-to-date value of a property should replace council tax and stamp duty, a think-tank has urged.
10 Oct 18Last week’s draft Welsh budget was the first to include Wales-specific income taxes. Guto Ifan of Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre argues that this new fiscal context demands an...
9 Oct 18Nearly two-thirds of people in the UK would like to see public spending increased even if that means higher taxes, a survey has revealed.
5 Oct 18The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has written to the chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs concerned only a “fraction” of online fraud VAT was being clawed back.
4 Oct 18CIPFA and the Institute for Fiscal Studies recently hosted a round tabled debate on the questions and issues thrown up by the government’s fair funding review. Vivienne Russell reports.
2 Oct 18Greater fiscal devolution, commercialisation and students paying council tax were all mooted solutions to squeezed local government funding, at a Conservative Party conference fringe session...
1 Oct 18The government will secure a Brexit deal that will create a ‘dividend’ to keep taxes low and support public services, the chancellor told the Conservative conference today.
25 Sep 18The government must make tax more popular to properly fund social care, a prominent academic has told the Labour conference.
11 Sep 18The debate over Scotland’s economic future has become increasingly febrile in the wake of the blueprint for independence published by the SNP’s Sustainable Growth Commission.
7 Sep 18Business rates are broken and deter companies from investing to boost productivity - abolishing them would bring benefits to the public sector as well as enterprise, argues Lib Dem Lord Fox.
6 Sep 18Three-quarters of adults in England back free personal care for over 65s, and the majority think this should be funded by tax hikes, a survey has found.
3 Sep 18Abolishing business rates and taxing land values instead would benefit businesses in 90% of English local authority areas, a Liberal Democrat report has claimed.
25 Jul 18The third phase of business rate retention pilots will go ahead with just a 75% retention and the ‘no detriment’ clause scrapped, the government has announced.
12 Jul 18Politicians need to grapple with questions of taxation and user charging if public services are to be funded sustainably, former home secretary Charles Clarke told the CIPFA conference yesterday.
5 Jul 18Nine in 10 councils think increased tax is crucial to stabilising the adult social care sector, council leaders have said.
