Yesterday’s Queen’s Speech aimed to finally put some meat on the bones of the Government’s flagship ‘Levelling Up’ agenda by handing more power to local communities. This is to be achieved through new ‘County Deals’ – essentially, a new form of combined authority. Other measures include giving greater powers to bring vacant properties back into […]
Covid-19 has turned society upside down in all sorts of ways, and British politics is no exception. Over the last few weeks, we have seen the almost surreal display of a Tory Chancellor clamouring for tax rises, while Labour urges the Government to keep the brakes firmly applied. So it is with Council Tax. As […]
Since the pandemic started, rumours that the Chancellor is planning a tax raid on the self-employed have abounded. The Chancellor’s pitch so far has been that as the self-employed and the employed have enjoyed similar levels of state support, it is only right that they should pay similar amounts in tax in the future – […]
With both parties turning on the spending taps to varying degrees it looks like we can expect higher taxes in the future. With spending pressures set to mount in the next few decades, there now needs to be a serious political debate not just on rate of tax, but what kind of taxes we use […]
