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New Research: The cost of collecting tax has barely fallen in over 50 years
We can today reveal that over half a century there has been no significant reduction in the costs of raising each pound of tax in Britain since 1958. This is after decades of new technology and improvement in productivity in the wider economy. Click here to read the full report HMRC has failed to collect tax more [...] Read the rest of this entry »
New Research: The cost of collecting tax has barely fallen in over 50 years
We can today reveal that over half a century there has been no significant reduction in the costs of raising each pound of tax in Britain since 1958. This is after decades of new technology and improvement in productivity in the wider economy. Click here to read the full report HMRC has failed to collect tax more [...] Read the rest of this entry »
New Research: £28.5 billion lost to black market alcohol, tobacco and diesel in just five years
The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) has revealed that £28.5 billion of tax revenue has been lost to the illicit market in spirits, beer, cigarettes, hand rolling tobacco and diesel between 2005-06 and 2009-10. The tax gap, detailed in an annual report from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), would have been more than enough to fund a 1p cut in the basic rate of [...] Read the rest of this entry »
UNISON response to council pensions report
Today we have released a report on council pension contributions, you can read it in full here. We found that council employer pension contributions were equivalent to £1 in every £5 of council tax receipts in 2010-11. UNISON issued a lazy response to this earlier, strewn with factual errors. They claim that: Actually, the local [...] Read the rest of this entry »
Taxpayers will have to work until 26 July to pay for the cost of government in 2012 – three more days than in 2007
As the New Year celebrations begin, the TaxPayers’ Alliance today reveals that the average person must work for 208 days in the coming year to pay for their share of the cost of government spending and regulation. Click here to read the full report This note extends the concept of Tax Freedom Day, which is calculated annually [...] Read the rest of this entry »
Taxpayers will have to work until 26 July to pay for the cost of government in 2012 – three more days than in 2007
As the New Year celebrations begin, the TaxPayers’ Alliance today reveals that the average person must work for 208 days in the coming year to pay for their share of the cost of government spending and regulation. Click here to read the full report This note extends the concept of Tax Freedom Day, which is calculated annually [...] Read the rest of this entry »
Today’s strike and pension myths
The strike today has been called the “largest coordinated action ever seen in the UK” by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The unions claim nearly 3 million public sector staff are not at work today, but the paltry number of strikers outside government department buildings in Westminster this morning doesn’t quite give you [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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