The latest figures for apprenticeships show an above average increase across Buckinghamshire. The average South East increase of 44% was also bettered by our neighbours in Beaconsfield (50%) and Chesham and Amersham (53%). Wycombe’s own increase of 51% should also be seen against the total number of places. We saw […]
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New book finds green taxes are excessive by over £500 a family | Home | The TaxPayers’ Alliance
Something to look forward to – a new book on carbon taxes published tomorrow: The biggest threat to taxpayers right now is expensive new green taxes and subsidies. In the first ever mainstream book on this subject – published Thursday 18 August – TaxPayers’ Alliance Director Matthew Sinclair has exposed […]
Read MoreMPs order tax chiefs to stop posting out ‘horrifying threats’ | Mail Online
HM Revenue chiefs were yesterday ordered by MPs to stop sending threatening letters to people who owed them money, warning that cars and televisions would be seized and sold off for a pittance. In a scathing rebuke, tax bosses were told by the Commons’ Treasury committee that the ‘widely used’ […]
Read MoreThe TaxPayers’ Alliance looks set to be more political
Interesting news from ConservativeHome: Jonathan Isaby, our former co-editor, will be the TaxPayers’ Alliance’s first ever Political Director. Jonathan’s role will be centred on building links with MPs, MEPs and Ministers, in order for the TPA to better represent taxpayers in Westminster and Brussels. He will focus on representing the […]
Read MoreAre government bonds a good investment?
Scanning the news this morning, I read that pension funds and insurance companies are to be encouraged to hold more “safe” government bonds. I’m fairly sure this is a dreadful idea. Government bonds amount to a promise to tax productive activity later. Unlike corporate bonds, they do not represent investment […]
Read MoreConservativeHome’s Platform: It’s time for flat taxes
I appeared recently on The Daily Politics to advocate tax simplification. In the way of things, the Beeb only used the section where I straightforwardly called for lower, flat taxes. I didn’t object – I’m serious: low and flat taxes would be better for everyone. Our austerity programme only deals with […]
Read MoreOn capital, international development and raising the poor out of poverty
Via The Economic Role of Saving and Capital Goods – Mises Institute (emphasis mine): What distinguishes contemporary life in the countries of Western civilization from conditions as they prevailed in earlier ages – and still exist for the greater number of those living today – is not the changes in the […]
Read MoreTax Freedom Day 2011
Today is Tax Freedom Day – the first day of the calendar year that Britons stop working for the state and start working for themselves. This year, we’ve worked for a full 5 months this year to pay their taxes, with every penny earned in the UK between January 1 and […]
Read MoreWhy HS2 doesn’t arouse the nation’s anger
Via the Adam Smith Institute, Why government doesn’t cut spending (even though it should) — a brief introduction to Public Choice Theory: Cutting tax and spending has concentrated costs and dispersed benefits but state spending has concentrated benefits and dispersed costs. That promotes growing state spending. It means that projects […]
Read MoreTory MP says HMRC ‘menacing’ letters show state is using ‘sinister’ psychology | News | Money Marketing
Updated. A story on Money Marketing, reporting my comments to them on a letter that two of my constituents received from HMRC as a first demand (notwithstanding HMRC’s claim in the article that it is only sent as a third reminder): A Conservative MP says recent letters from HM Revenue […]
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