Tax

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Two weeks ago, Ben Furber wrote on LabourList that MumsNet was likely to be a key political battleground in the 2010 election. Today, Labour stepped up its Mumsnet campaign, with a targeted attack ad against…

By Gavin Hayes / @CompassOffice Today, Compass responded to the damning National Equality Panel report by Professor John Hills - which revealed that the richest 10% are now 100 times more wealthy than the poorest - by calling for the…

By Ed Miliband MP / @EdMilibandMP 22 January 2010 Dear Alex, Thank you for your letter about your New Ideas for a Renewed Movement series. I am really sorry for the delay in replying. The New Ideas series was fantastic. I really enjoyed…

By Joe Cox / @compassoffice Today, JP Morgan Chase has announced profits of 11.4 billion dollars with plans to pay 9.3 billion dollars in bonuses. The figure is huge, but it's its context that makes it all the more galling. It is happening…

By Toby Flux / @LabourMatters I've read with disappointment the growing criticism of what some call the 'class war strategy'. Not because a strategy based on class war isn't bound to fail, but because so many seem to have willingly fallen…

By John Prescott MP / @johnprescott So now we know that the TaxPayers' Alliance doesn't mean they represent taxpayers. It means the taxpayers pay for them! Yes, according to today's Guardian we've been subsidising this right wing…

By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft ConservativeHome are asking how the Conservatives should address Labour's claim that they plan to put up VAT. As Guido Fawkes summarises: "[Tim Montgomerie] makes five suggestions: admit VAT will rise to 20%…

By Emma Burnell Anyone who's ever read a comment thread after any article anywhere on the web will recognise a few usual tired lines that are trotted out by the deniers time and again, however often they have been thoroughly debunked. Ed…

By Laurie Penny Gordon Brown has faced near-universal disapprobation this week for daring to mention that the personal wealth and privilege of members of the shadow cabinet might have the tiniest bit of bearing on their inheritance tax…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 22:30 UPDATE: The Guardian is now reporting that the Tobin tax is also likely to be announced in tomorrow's PBR. Alistair Darling is likely to announce a special one off windfall tax on bankers' bonuses in…

By Luke Bozier / @luke_cb Today the Royal Bank of Scotland, the most beleaguered of British financial institutions, returned to the limelight in a storm over the board's intentions to pay a total bonus fund of £1.5 billion to investment…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Ed Balls fired a shot back at the Tories' new plans for marriage incentives in an interview with Sky News this morning. David Cameron had told the Daily Mail that the Tories will reward married couples through…