Tax Cuts

  • BusinessAOL

    £7.2bn of tax cuts would be nice, but can we afford them?

    Everyone likes to have more money in their pocket so for politicians fast approaching election day, promises around income tax are easy wins but can we actually afford them? Prime minister David Cameron has already promised £7.2 billion of tax

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    Treasury hopes to claw back tax cut

    More than half the cost of George Osborne's cuts to corporation tax could eventually be clawed back by the Treasury as a result of the extra jobs, growth and investment that they stimulate, the Chancellor is claiming. A HM Revenue and Customs

  • NewsAOL

    Tax cuts not ruled out - Cameron

    The Conservative commitment to running a budget surplus even after the deficit has been eliminated does not mean the party must rule out tax cuts, Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted. Mr Cameron was speaking a day ahead of the Autumn

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    Tax cuts: giving with one hand and taking with another

    The Tories and Lib Dems are battling it over whose idea it was to raise the personal allowance threshold, but whoever came up with it first is irrelevant in light of one key question. Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said

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    Cameron the low tax Tory; don't make me laugh

    Prime minister David Cameron's pledge that he is a 'low-tax Conservative' is no surprise to the rich who have benefited from his policies, but may come as a shock to the poorest in society who have seen benefits slashed to pay for

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    Tax simplification? Pull the other one Osborne

    The coalition has tried to prove its commitment to tax simplification, it even set up an office to tackle it specifically, but what it has been less vocal about is the 299 separate tax rises it has introduced. Analysis by the TaxPayers'