As council taxpayers across the country await the expected rises in their council tax bills, seven local authorities have been granted special permission to demand a rise nearly double the usual 4.99 per cent limit.
Taxes will rise in the Budget on 26 November – what’s the excuse? Tories, Reform, Brexit, lazy workers, low productivity. Never the EU, never devolution, never net zero policy, never lack of investment, never the debt to financial markets and interest paid. Never capitalism.
Britain has been the preferred hunting ground for US multinationals buying up businesses abroad, leading to a serious loss of independence.
25 February 2025
Farmers are not giving up on their struggle against inheritance tax changes and other attacks on their industry. Thay are organising widespread protests and are now signing up supermarkets to their cause.
Now in paperback, an account of taxation and government spending over the past three centuries casts an interesting light on the nation’s development…
26 September 2022
The new government’s economic policies continue those of the past – with a belief in capitalism as the only possible economic system, whose crises must be paid for by the people of Britain.
The current energy price rises are part of the government’s attack on the working class. There is a good case for a VAT holiday for domestic energy.
Amazon’s London HQ in Shoreditch was the target of a demonstration on Monday 2 December organised by GMB.
Shop workers’ union USDAW was one of the many unions that fell tamely in line with the government in 2016
Tax plans in the budget issued by the devolved government in Edinburgh mark a split in the united approach to taxation in Britain.
22 February 2015
Tax avoidance has been much in the news. That it happens is no surprise to workers – but the extent to which it is engrained in our economic system might be.
