There’s the old adage about fixing the roof while the sun is shining, to which the Conservatives might reasonably reply that the sun wasn’t shining. The problem for them is that once you have holes i… (View Post)

Private Equity shops are /very/ good at finding creative ways around accounting restrictions. It’s practically their raison d’être. (View Post)

Some people are paying marginal rates at that level - the combination of the removal of child benefit around £50k & the removal of the tax free allowance > £100k leads to these kind of margina… (View Post)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_tax_revenue_to_GDP_ratio (Edit: Hah. Foxy & I jinxed.) (View Post)

Excerpt from that pdf: Box 1: Tax receipts and public sector current receipts Most government revenues come from taxes or social contributions. National insurance contributions are the UK’s social co… (View Post)