Ditching a damaging capital gains tax rise doesn’t make Healey a pro-growth Chancellor Opinion Although the government has ruled out raising Capital Gains Tax in the upcoming budget, Labour’s broader tax and spending policies remain economically damaging, uncompetitive, and fundamentally misguided, says Daniel Herring The government needs to find money for the upcoming Budget. Having ruled out the least damaging and broadest-based tax rises, Labour needs to resort to [...]
Is scrapping the tax-free pension lump sum a good idea? Opinion The tax-free pension lump sum has its problems, but is limiting the allowance actually a good idea, asks Daniel Herring.
A warning to Reeves: These tax rises will damage UK competitiveness Opinion Not only is the UK tax burden at record levels, but we are raising money in a more damaging way than our competitors. And the Budget could be about to make things even worse, says Daniel Herring Next week, Rachel Reeves needs to try not to make the UK’s tax system worse. Yesterday the US-based [...]
Tory plans to axe rip-off degrees don’t go far enough May 30, 2024 Too many university courses waste students’ time and energy leaving them loaded with debt and costing the taxpayer billions. Cutting low-value courses is a good start, but the system needs much more radical reform, says Daniel Herring The Conservative Party’s pledge to cut low quality university courses should be welcomed by anyone concerned with the [...]
