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6 Feb 18
Local government leaders have warned a group of MPs increasing business rate retention levels will not benefit all councils equally.
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5 Feb 18
A new tax earmarked for the NHS and social care should replace national insurance, a Liberal Democrat commissioned report has said.
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1 Feb 18
The Scottish budget yesterday gained stage one parliamentary approval after ministers struck a deal with the Scottish Greens.
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24 Jan 18
The UK must remain an international leader in the fight against tax dodging as it leaves the European Union next year, an all-parliamentary group heard yesterday.
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24 Jan 18
Government borrowing in December 2017 dropped by half compared with the same period in 2016 because of higher tax receipts and a rebate from the EU, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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15 Jan 18
Councils across England are proposing to take advantage of the ability to raise council tax by a further 1%, Public Finance has found.
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11 Jan 18
Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay has defended radical plans to overhaul income tax in front of MSPs.
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14 Dec 17
Income tax in Scotland is to be radically restructured in a bold attempt by Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay to cancel out reductions in Scotland’s direct grant from Westminster.
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30 Nov 17
The UK could become defined as a tax haven by the EU after it leaves the block, participants of an All Party-Parliamentary Group on Responsible Tax seminar have warned.
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22 Nov 17
Philip Hammond’s changes to tax, benefits and housing don’t add up to much for hard-pressed families, argues the JRF’s Katie Schmuecker
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22 Nov 17
The government is committed to a “fair and sustainable tax system” that is fit for the future, Philip Hammond said in his Budget statement today.
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21 Nov 17
The way companies operate in the gig economy means public services are missing out on “enormous” amounts of tax revenue, a leading tax lawyer has told the All Party Parliamentary Group on...
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20 Nov 17
The Paradise Papers leak has shone more light on secret companies used by the wealthy to avoid tax and launder corrupt wealth, says Steve Goodrich of Transparency International.
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16 Nov 17
Tax avoidance is “utterly and totally immoral and wrong” and is “damaging public services”, the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for responsible tax has told the...
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14 Nov 17
The chancellor should remove the national insurance exemptions for pensioners and use the money to help young people, a think-tank has said.
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14 Nov 17
Local communities will be handed a £1bn fracking fund to create facilities, such as play parks, community sports facilities and libraries.
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13 Nov 17
Next week’s Budget will be “bad news” for public and household finances, the Resolution Foundation has warned.
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8 Nov 17
The government should step up its efforts to tackle tax dodging by implementing transparency measures in the upcoming Budget, the head of advocacy at Oxfam told an event on responsible tax.
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6 Nov 17
Politicians and unions have called on the government to tighten up rules on tax avoidance and evasion after leaked documents showed wide-scale international investment made in offshore ‘...
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6 Nov 17
Mark Drakeford, Welsh cabinet secretary for finance and local government, talks exclusively to PF about taxes, budget setting and why austerity is a failed policy.
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31 Oct 17
More than a third of councils are paying their staff more mileage than they should, according to the campaign group the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
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24 Oct 17
Nearly two-thirds of the public say government spending should increase even if that means higher taxes as support for austerity fades, according to research.
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9 Oct 17
Scottish ministers have been forced to admit that their controversial plans to halve duties for airlines serving Scotland’s airports have hit a Brexit-related snag.
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5 Oct 17
Westminster Council has announced plans for a voluntary ‘mansion tax’ on buildings worth more than £10m in a bid to freeze council tax for other residents.
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26 Sep 17
Scotland’s first two devolved taxes, on property sales and landfill, fell short of projected revenues in 2016-17 by more than £50m.