Blog posts tagged "George Osborne"

May 22, 2012 7:02 pm No Comments

The government is wrestling with a package of growth measures it would like to announce before the Summer recess. There are internal battles over the scale of all this and some of the content.

May 8, 2012 2:58 pm 5 Comments

Will he, won't he. Channel 4 News Politics Editor Gary Gibbon on how the wrangle for Lords reform at the heart of the coalition government threatens to bring an abrupt halt to changes at the Commons.

April 23, 2012 5:47 pm No Comments

After a relatively minor clash with Tory MPs over an increase of the loan to the IMF, George Osborne has emerged relatively unscathed.

March 22, 2012 9:09 am 5 Comments

A level of taxation that was once meant for a relatively small minority of the wealthiest members of the working population could be moving towards a state where a huge chunk of the population might find themselves in its grasp in the course of a working lifetime.

March 21, 2012 1:17 pm No Comments

George Osborne just announced a "tax simplification" measure for pensioners' tax allowances. Count your spoons time! Harmonising allowances for over 65's with everyone else's allowances will mean the over 65's get less tax free over the years.

March 8, 2012 7:19 pm No Comments

With the budget looming the coalition's top politicians are still struggling to nail down what it will include, reports Gary Gibbon.

March 6, 2012 4:49 pm 1 Comment

Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the Chancellor's Budget options - will he scrap the 50p tax rate and make changes to his plans to scrap child benefit for 40p taxpayers?

March 5, 2012 3:01 pm 4 Comments

A lot of pre-Budget kite-flying going on. Always a danger that you raise expectations with exercises like that and then find you can't deliver on them. On child benefit, the Treasury seems to be looking at a number of ways of ameliorating the child benefit removal for 40 per cent tax payers. All of them look pretty expensive. The plan is to have something ready to announce in the Budget on 21 March.

February 14, 2012 3:25 pm No Comments

Sounds like last night's quad meeting saw the Lib Dems - Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander - push the case for the tax threshold expected increase in this budget (£630) to be doubled (to £1200 or so).

January 26, 2012 6:58 pm 4 Comments

The coalition might agree with Clegg's proposals in principal, but the cost of his proposals mean that no new tax threshold targets have been agreed.