If Job Centres cannot find more work for the unemployed and underemployed and George Osborne is proposing to freeze or reduce the minimum wage, then how can people earn more to get off benefits?
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Politics
Tories Talk of Increasing Worker Earnings, But From Where?
Politics
The Trouble with Corporation Tax
Corporation tax is a core part of our tax system. On average it raises 10% of UK tax revenues. Calling for its abolition reveals a lack of understanding of its importance
Politics
Is it Time to End Austerity?
Austerity has failed the UK. The Moody’s downgrade is evidence of that. Austerity is proving to be bad politics: Italy’s…
UK
David Cameron Questions Morality of Tax Avoidance
Prime Minister David Cameron has said that questions need to be asked about the morality of aggressive tax avoidance schemes after the government cut the UK’s corporation tax to a competitive 21%
UK
Replacing Corporation Tax with a Sales Tax Would Be a Disaster for Ordinary People
Discussion about corporation tax continues unabated, and I am looking forward to tomorrow and the Parliamentary Accounts Committee hearing. With a little luck I…