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Tax Better

dailyrecord.co.uk
13-May-2008
        

May 14 2008 By Andrew Woodcock Unions Welcome £2.7bn Handout That Will Help 22million Workers CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling yesterday announced help for middle-income workers hit by the scrapping of the 10p income tax rate. He told the Commons he will increase personal tax allowances by £600 this...

                   

Darling rewrites Budget to give basic rate taxpayers £120 each

icnetwork.co.uk
13-May-2008
        

May 14 2008 by Tomos Livingstone, Western Mail CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling threw a lifeline to Gordon Brown yesterday with a £2.7bn giveaway aimed at ending the 10p tax row. After weeks of anger from Labour backbenchers that scrapping the 10p band was hitting low earners, Mr Darling dramatically...

                   

Darling gets Snowed under

spectator.co.uk
13-May-2008
        

If you missed Jon Snow monstering Alistair Darling, watch here—absolutely brilliant: and totemic. When even Mr Snow isn't buying, then Darling has been truly rumbled. Darling's answers were all nonsense, but here are the top Snow questions. 1) Just eight weeks since your last budget, what has...

                   
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The _2.7billion U-turn: How bottler Brown tore up his own budget to buy off 10p tax rebels

dailymail.co.uk
13-May-2008
        

Alistair Darling today announced the Government was spending _2.7 billion to compensate people who lost out because of the decision to abolish the 10p tax rate. The Tories immediately dismissed the measure as an attempt to stem Labour's problems ahead of next week's crunch by-election

                   
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10p tax: Labour's economic reputation at risk

telegraph.co.uk
13-May-2008
        

By Andrew Porter, Political Editor David Cameron told a lunch audience on Tuesday that he did not underestimate Gordon Brown despite the political obituaries that are being prepared for him. An hour later he sat opposite the Prime Minister in the Commons and witnessed the Labour Government that...

One statistic to remember about today's 10p tax rate announcements

libdemblogs.co.uk
13-May-2008
        

Today’s announced tax changes, designed to deal with the fallout from the abolition of the 10p tax rate, will cost _2.7 billion (to be funded by extra borrowing). Of that, only _630 million will go to people who lost out in the first place due to the abolition of the 10p rate. In other words -...

                   

Tax changes: bad economics and bad politics

libdemblogs.co.uk
13-May-2008
        

Can this government get anything right? The reason I ask is that Alistair Darling's announcement today about raising the income tax personal allowance is, on the face of it, a clever way out of the hole Labour had dug itself into with the abolition of the 10p tax rate. The trouble is, it's...

                   

10p tax - where is the money coming from?

newportcity.blogspot.com
13-May-2008
        

We are in the process of watching another huge fuck up by the gay clunking claw that is Gordon Brown.First off he cuts the 10p tax rate, this was done to pay for a tax cut for others in the economic system.Now he plans to spend some £2.7 billion on compensating those affected. It will compensate...

                   

10p tax: was Gordon Brown’s hand forced by Alastair Darling?

telegraph.co.uk
13-May-2008
        

Full coverage of UK politics Whose u-turn was this 10p tax reversal? In the days ahead that question will take on considerable importance. On the subject, Frank Field has given an extraordinary interview to Channel 4 News in which he said that Alastair Darling has become "his own person" in the...

                   

Darling to flesh out 10p tax compensation plans

tiscali.co.uk
13-May-2008
        

Darling to flesh out 10p tax compensation plans The chancellor, Alistair Darling, will unveil further details of the government's plans to compensate those who have lost out from the abolition of the 10p starting rate of tax in a statement to MPs this afternoon. Darling's statement will not give...