Election 2024: Will Labour change your council tax band? June 19, 2024 Labour's position on council tax is coming under intense scrutiny, amid calls to revamp the 1991 bands. Will the party have to re-evaluate them?
Make tax boring again! June 18, 2024 There’s a smooth inverse correlation between how likely a party is to become the next government and the radicalism of its manifesto tax plans, says Tim Sarson “I suppose I ought to write something about tax in the manifestos,” I thought to myself. It would be odd not to in the week directly after the [...]
‘Let me kill it dead’: Keir Starmer rules out Premier League transfer levy June 18, 2024 Shadow sport secretary Thangam Debbonaire appeared to suggest that Labour could introduce the transfer tax.
‘An encouraging signal’: Private equity nerves settle as Labour sets limit on tax raid June 18, 2024 A Labour government will allow private equity dealmakers to continue to benefit from a lower tax treatment on profits when their own cash is at risk, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has suggested.
Election 2024: Three things to watch out for in Labour’s manifesto June 13, 2024 Here are three things to watch out for in Labour’s manifesto that might shape the campaign to come.
Election 2024: Labour will seek mandate for growth with ‘wealth creation’ manifesto June 13, 2024 Keir Starmer will seek a “mandate for economic growth” as he unveils Labour’s election manifesto, pledging to “be the party of wealth creation”.
Let’s be honest, there’s no such thing as a ‘fully costed’ manifesto June 13, 2024 All parties are putting forward nice-sounding policies and promising that they’ll be paid for by someone else, says Matthew Lesh “Our plans are fully funded and fully costed,” proudly declares every party leader when presenting their election manifestos. It’s not difficult to understand why this is so important. Politicians are trying to run a gigantic [...]
Child benefit changes just move distortions higher up the income scale June 12, 2024 Tory plans to change the threshold at which a household loses child benefit won’t fix the fact that some two-child families face a marginal tax rate of 73 per cent, say Ash Majithia and Tim Sexton It’s been framed as a hand-out for the wealthy, including executives in the City of London. But the real [...]
Neither party is being honest about tax rises June 12, 2024 Promises not to raise headline rates are designed to distract from the fact inflation is dragging millions of people into paying more. But history tells us that candour never pays on the campaign trail, says Will Cooling You may not know it from the campaign, but if there is one thing that everyone agrees on, [...]
Election 2024: Houses, ULEZ and tax – what we learned from the Tory manifesto June 11, 2024 With just over three weeks to go ahead of polling day, here are the top five things we learned from Rishi Sunak at the Conservatives’ manifesto launch.