Comment Welfare for the wealthy: Let’s focus tax relief away from the 1 per cent This year we’ll will collect a little less than £170bn of income tax, roughly a third of… Jolyon Maugham 20th May, 2016, 7:00 am
Comment Should the rules about leadership contests be changed? Writing in the Telegraph last month John McTernan picked up an idea which had earlier been floated by Sam… Jolyon Maugham 13th November, 2015, 9:37 am
Comment Labour shouldn’t accept the Tories’ false dichotomy of deficit rises or benefit cuts “We won’t oppose the household benefit cap [or] what [the Conservatives] brought forward in relation to restricting benefits… Jolyon Maugham 13th July, 2015, 11:53 am
Comment Osborne may have stolen Labour’s rhetoric on non-doms, but his proposals are seriously flawed The Tories are starting to make a habit of stealing Labour’s tax clothing. First, came Labour’s proposals for… Jolyon Maugham 8th July, 2015, 3:05 pm
Comment Labour need a Personal Tax Road Map This tax year the highest earning 5,000 people in the United Kingdom will pay around £9bn of income… Jolyon Maugham 6th May, 2015, 5:13 pm
Comment The Tories’ “Five Year Tax Lock” is meaningless – and Osborne knows it This morning David Cameron tweeted out the Conservatives ‘Five Year Tax Lock’. Here it is: What our five year tax… Jolyon Maugham 29th April, 2015, 10:31 am