taxation Articles

The run-up to this year’s budget will be dominated, as always, by issues of tax and growth. As is usual for the time of year, campaigners are full of whizz-bang ideas to fiddle with the tax rates to further their own interests or cause. And with the economy bumping...

With two weeks to go to the budget, everyone’s making their bids for tax cuts. Last week 500 business people called on the chancellor to reduce the 50p top rate of income tax. I thought their argument that reducing the income tax rate would help them to create jobs...

Labour should back tax relief for ‘granny annexes’, suggests Parmjit Dhanda The lack of political consensus on how the UK faces up to, let alone tackles, our national care crisis is something we should all be worried about. Labour made some proposals far too close to...

Today marks the start of National Apprenticeship Week 2012 (Monday 6 February – Friday 10 February). Back for its fifth year and run by the National Apprenticeship Service, it is hoped 2012 will be bigger and better than ever with people across the country getting...