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50p tax rate Articles

The 50p question

Maya Goodfellow and Victoria Groulef on whether Labour should retain its 50p tax rate policy [column-group][column] Yes Maya Goodfellow —The 50p tax rate was never meant to be a permanent measure when the Brown government introduced it following the 2008 economic...
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‘I’m not going to let them off the hook’

As he prepares to respond to next month’s budget, Ed Balls is in a fighting mood, find Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison Shortly after Christmas Ed Balls gave an interview with the New Statesman which held out the prospect of a period of détente between the shadow...
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Tax entrenched capital

We ask a lot of our tax system. Not merely – merely! – that it fund all that government does. But also that it encourage socially or economically desirable behaviours and aid income redistribution. It has to do this efficiently, in a manner mindful of the UK’s need...
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Labour’s 1992 shadow budget revisited?

Like every ordinary Labour party member, I am working towards the election of a majority Labour government in 2015. And like most responsible citizens, I would like to see the fiscal deficit brought down and a tax system where everyone ‘pays their fair share’. There...
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