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Is the tycoon tax threatening the big society?
April 4, 2012 8:08 pm 8 Comments
Why tax changes proposed in the budget could undo the good work of Big Society Capital - the body launched to fund social investment.
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Spain: the Brussels budget ‘suicide pact’
March 30, 2012 7:25 pm 4 Comments
As Easter approaches in Andalusia, Faisal Islam visits the Eurozone's biggest headache.
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Spain’s ‘indignado’ youth now angry at attempts to help them
March 29, 2012 2:51 pm 8 Comments
Overqualified, no jobs, and the worst economic year since world war two. What now for Spain's young?
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‘No growth Britain’ looks concerning even from pained Spain
March 28, 2012 1:42 pm 9 Comments
In other words, taking into account, alternate upswings and downswings, the UK has not grown since October 2010, also the month of the Spending Review. That's right, ZERO growth in 5 quarters, 15 months, for which the Coalition's original deficit reduction plan had pencilled in three per cent.
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Osborne’s simple Granny tax alibi gets complicated
March 24, 2012 3:38 pm 3 Comments
"What is clear though, is that the Office of Tax Simplification does not offer much of an alibi for the change announced on Wednesday."
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Budget 2012: tax avoidance and the 50p rate
March 21, 2012 9:05 pm 8 Comments
The fact remains that the decision on the 50p rate was made on the basis of one year's highly distorted data. In some ways it was set up to fail. Many economists will argue that it was always going to.
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Will HMRC have smoking gun against the 50p? Impossible
March 19, 2012 10:05 pm 5 Comments
Faisal's done the maths: George Osborne can't justify his claim that the 50p tax rate isn't generating money.
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How scrapping national pay rates might save lives
March 18, 2012 2:58 pm 11 Comments
Faisal Islam on how scrapping national pay bargaining might save lives, and why it will be rather difficult.
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Bad news for Osborne as Britain is put on negative outlook
March 14, 2012 9:58 pm 12 Comments
A second ratings agency has effectively lowered their assessment of Britain's creditworthiness, just days before an important Budget.
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Good news for Merseyside jobs – and for Michael Heseltine’s legacy
March 13, 2012 9:26 pm 1 Comment
Lord Heseltine received the freedom of the City of Liverpool, on the day that the creation of thousands of jobs was announced. But all the main political parties seem to be fighting over the Heseltine inheritance of industrial activism.

