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The ‘Fairness Insurance’ opportunity for Clegg
Liberal Democrats policies have made their mark on the Coalition. The most significant being the AV referendum, raising the income tax threshold, introducing the pupil premium, and “green investment”....
View ArticleMansion Tax Nouveau
Our party at times, is rather like the French wine industry, a purveyor of great things, sometimes the best in the world, but rather loathe to change our traditional bad habits. The mansion tax in many...
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Cloud cuckoo tax
On Sunday the Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, echoed the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, that the 50p income tax rate, introduced by the previous Labour government,...
View ArticleShould your taxes be used to fund a Premier League football club?
One of the fastest-growing petitions in recent weeks has been this effort to stop millions of pounds in government funds being handed over to Tottenham Hotspur FC. You can view it here:...
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Alcohol taxation: the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
“The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth” is what we swear to do when we testify in court and perhaps our world would be a better place if society encouraged that approach in public life....
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Médecins sans frontières
Doctors just can’t help trying to save people, it seems. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which brings together the presidents of the Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties and so purports to...
View ArticleReform the Tax Code or Shut the F*ck Up!
It’s the nuanced political analysis that you’ve, no doubt, come to expect from Liberal Vision… But seriously! Why would anyone or any corporation pay more tax than the government tells them they...
View ArticleBarlow Is Not To Blame!
I can’t quite get my head around the outrage over the Gary Barlow tax avoidance (note: not tax evasion) story. Margaret Hodge MP has actually suggested that he should give back his OBE! What a joke!...
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The Tax Code Must Die
This article on The Poke did make me chuckle: It does, however, raise the point as to why what companies have to pay in Corporation Tax is open to interpretation. The Tax Code is a convoluted mess;...
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