Business rates are a stupid idea - as are all turnover taxes. By far the best way to tax businesses is to tax un-reinvested profits at a fairly steep rate, and nothing else. Turnover taxes make busin… (View Post)

Giving anyone £38k a year in benefits is obscene, never mind giving that to someone earning earning £42k. Why should I, currently bringing up two kids on a fraction of that, be forking out a huge wed… (View Post)

Isn't the other option to deduct tax at source? Let's say the state pension is £15000, and the tax free allowance is £13000 (for the sake of round numbers). £2000 of the pension is thus tax… (View Post)

Isn't a fuel duty increase "next year" something chancellors have been doing for the last 20 years - just somehow next year never comes? (something to do with it being a stupid tax to … (View Post)

The problem is that the whole EV thing is rather built on sand. For a lot of users, their real cost is more than running an ICE car, but this is hidden in the tax arbitrage, with the UK taxpayer taki… (View Post)