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Clegg calls for £1bn tax giveaway
Filed under: Tax David Cheskin/PA Wire Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is pressing his Tory coalition partners to take advantage of the improving economy for a £1 billion tax giveaway before the next...
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Business tax options to be outlined
Filed under: Tax David Cheskin/PA A potential tax regime to "support" businesses after a Yes vote in the referendum will be outlined by the Scottish Government in an economic analysis paper this week....
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NHS prescription charges to increase to £10?
Filed under: Tax PA Wire/Press Association Images Ministers should consider extending prescription charges, as well as introducing new charges on visits to NHS GP surgeries and some elements of...
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Tax cuts: giving with one hand and taking with another
Filed under: Tax Shutterstock / tanatat The Tories and Lib Dems are battling it over whose idea it was to raise the personal allowance threshold, but whoever came up with it first is irrelevant in...
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Marriage tax break 'hits women'
Filed under: Tax Shutterstock / Karen Grigoryan The Government wants to take money from women's purses and put it into men's wallets, Labour's equality spokeswoman claimed today. Gloria De Piero opened...
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'£170m tax lost in Gift Aid abuse'
Filed under: Tax EMPICS Entertainment Around £170 million worth of tax has been lost over the last year due to the abuse of relief on charitable donations, the public spending watchdog has found. The...
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NHS 'wasted £40m' on utility bills
Filed under: Tax PA Wire/Press Association Images The NHS in England wasted more than £40 million last year by paying too much for its energy and water, research revealed. Money spent on excessive...
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Extra tax warning over independence
Filed under: Tax Shutterstock / Aleksey Stemmer Independence could mean Scots paying an extra £1,000 a year in tax, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has claimed. Danny Alexander issued the warning...
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'No room' for income tax cuts
Filed under: Tax WPA-Rota/Press Association Images Britain's "dangerous" debt levels mean Chancellor George Osborne has no room for cuts in personal taxes like income tax, a think-tank has warned. The...
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Tory marriage tax sweetener could make you poorer
Filed under: TaxIf David Cameron thought a tax break for married couples would give them a financial boost, the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW) disagrees - very strongly. In fact, the ICAEW...
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Osborne vows 'responsible recovery'
Filed under: TaxGeorge Osborne has played down the prospect of significant tax cuts or extra spending commitments in his Autumn Statement this week as he promised to deliver a "responsible recovery"....
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What will Scottish independence cost?
Filed under: Tax If a politician offered you a bigger state pension earlier, better benefits, more childcare and all without raising the amount of tax that would be taken from your pay packet, you'd...
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Autumn Statement 2013: PM targets more marriage tax breaks
Filed under: Tax WPA-Rota/Press Association Images David Cameron has signalled he is planning further action to reward marriage through the tax system, on the eve of the expected introduction of an...
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Taxes on living need reform, not income tax
Filed under: Tax A think-tank has accused the government of forgetting about the middle classes in its bid to rid the poor of an income tax burden but while we argue about wage slips the real problem...
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Treasury hopes to claw back tax cut
Filed under: TaxMore than half the cost of George Osborne's cuts to corporation tax could eventually be clawed back by the Treasury as a result of the extra jobs, growth and investment that they...
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What the Autumn Statement means for families
Filed under: Pensions, Motoring, Tax J.M. Guyon/Candybox Images/Press Association Images The government doesn't want to upset families as the general election creeps ever-closer. George Osborne paid...
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What will Autumn Statement tax do to house prices?
Filed under: Tax Ralf Hirschberger/DPA/Press Association Images In his Autumn Statement, George Osborne announced that he would introduce a tax for people who live overseas and own a second property in...
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Warning over EU 'transaction tax'
Filed under: Tax Getty Images/Image Source Ministers have been accused of complacency over the threat to the City from plans by a breakaway group of EU member states to go ahead with a tax on financial...
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Tax relief for second home owners and buy-to-let landlords halved
Filed under: Tax PA Wire/Press Association Images The Government is cutting Capital Gains Tax relief on the sale of additional properties from 2015. In one of the 'blink and you'll miss it'...
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Forget marriage tax breaks, what about family tax breaks?
Filed under: Tax Shutterstock / Minerva Studio The Tories really appealed to their conservative, without a capital C, roots when they proposed a tax break on something as silly as signing a piece of...
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