Facts and figures from the January/February 2018 edition of Public Finance magazine on the Autumn Budget, CIPFA’s library survey and NHS winter pressures
Almost all councils in England are planning to raise council tax and increase charging in 2018-19, according to the Local Government Information Unit’s annual finance survey.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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 ‘...
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.
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.
