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The big black cloud
Brexit hung over this year’s party conference season like a big black cloud. For pro-Europeans it portended storms ahead and blanketed everything beneath it in a suffocating gloom.
Celebrating 20 years of the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group
Issues for low income taxpayers
This year marks the 20th anniversary since the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) was set up by John Andrews (then President of the CIOT) as an initiativ
All that glistens
Every child knows that a gold medal is the top Olympic award and a gold star marks the highest classroom achievement.
A badge of honour
It was a small gesture, but I like to think that I am not the first woman to have entered the offices of HM Treasury wearing a badge with the words ‘No vote, No tax’ around the image of a ship at s
One year on
It has now been a year since I was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General.
Nudging taxpayer behaviour
Nudge theory has now been around for 10 years. The idea behind this theory is that policy doesn’t always have to require people to do one thing or another.
Inspiring ideas
Professor Mark Drakeford AM is the Cabinet Secretary for Finance in the Welsh government. On 13 February he announced that the Welsh Assembly would move forward with a vacant land tax proposal.
Bitter sweet
In March, the World’s Original Marmalade Festival will be held at Dalemain, in Cumbria. An annual event, the festival is now in its thirteenth year.
