taxation Articles

George Osborne has indeed set a fiscal trap. To accept his cuts is economic madness. To reject them is electoral suicide. If Labour accepts the ‘spending envelope’, Labour undermines its ‘too far, too fast’ argument, the IMF’s belated agreement with our stance and, as...

In the past few weeks each of the party leaders have said there needs to be a public debate on immigration. Well, we’ve got one, but it’s not been a balanced debate. The emphasis has been almost exclusively on costs with little discussion of the benefits. Where the...

The government is losing billions each year from tax avoidance. It is time to crack down on it, says Margaret Hodge IN my two and a half years as chair of the public accounts committee, the issue that has most strongly captured the public mood has undoubtedly been...

Amazon et al must stump up and pay their fair share of tax on the huge sales they make here in the UK. Leona Helmsley’s infamous quote that ‘only little people pay taxes’ springs to mind as we hear about how a corporate giant like Amazon has exploited international...