Michael Ludlow, Mike Sufrin, Chris Sanger and John Whiting comment on the coalition Government's tax policy at the end of its first Parliamentary term
8 out of 10
Our world is changing fundamentally perhaps. Liam Byrne tells the coalition Government that there's no money left. Given my job I could be expected to denounce George Osborne’s first Budget as a largely political affair. Certainly there is a lot of work to do around the banking levy if it is to become a workable and fair deliverer of £2 billion a year towards deficit reduction. Indeed it seems rather counter intuitive to devise an entirely new set of regulations with their inherent limitations (most notably the absence of any double tax relief) at the same time as pushing ahead with the welcome introduction of an office of tax simplification.
But some banks were doubtless complicit in sowing the...
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Reviewing the Coalition's tax policies
Michael Ludlow, Mike Sufrin, Chris Sanger and John Whiting comment on the coalition Government's tax policy at the end of its first Parliamentary term
8 out of 10
Our world is changing fundamentally perhaps. Liam Byrne tells the coalition Government that there's no money left. Given my job I could be expected to denounce George Osborne’s first Budget as a largely political affair. Certainly there is a lot of work to do around the banking levy if it is to become a workable and fair deliverer of £2 billion a year towards deficit reduction. Indeed it seems rather counter intuitive to devise an entirely new set of regulations with their inherent limitations (most notably the absence of any double tax relief) at the same time as pushing ahead with the welcome introduction of an office of tax simplification.
But some banks were doubtless complicit in sowing the...
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