Le iTax: France mulls tax on smartphones, tablets, and more
France wants to raise the cost of smartphones and tablets by up to three percent in order to help funding the government-subsidised arts
- 13 May 2013
A taxing issue – is it for the EU to decide?
White smoke over Old Trafford may have distracted the press but manoeuvres are still ongoing in Brussels
- 10 May 2013
VIDEO: Jay Leno advises Obama how to close Guantanamo
American talk-show host Jay Leno had some wise words for President Obama, following the latter's renewed overtures over Guantanamo Bay
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The simple case for less tax
It sounds simple; it is simple: Let people and businesses keep more of the money they earn for themselves
- 5 March 2013
Scrap the Beer Duty Escalator
There are many radical reforms which should be announced to fix Britain’s broken tax system next month. Scrapping the despised and damaging beer duty escalator should be right up there
- 28 February 2013
Tax changes of the wrong sort
The coalition has a total of 119 tax cutting measures either planned or implemented, but this number is dwarfed by that for tax rises - an eye-watering 299
- 31 January 2013
Why I left the party I love
What if the party you represent goes so off-piste that staying in means you have to abandon the true principles of that party?
- 22 January 2013
Robbing Peter to pay Peter
It is about time that taking money from Peter then giving it back to him stops
- 18 January 2013
Is it time to re-introduce the 10p income tax band?
All things considered, is it time to bring back the 10p income tax band, scrapped by Gordon Brown?
- 11 January 2013
How high taxes killed our belief in helping others
The moral case against high taxes must be made or – counter-intuitive as it may seem – the moral case for helping others will continue to fall on deaf ears
- 8 January 2013
Seumas Milne's mad wealth tax
Seumas Milne believes he has the answer to Britain's economic woes. Unfortunately for him, he is spectacularly wrong
- 2 January 2013
The left's bully tactics and the shifting of goalposts
The Left's tactics over Starbucks and the NHS show that it is not committed to economic recovery - and the right is failing too
- 11 December 2012
Haven't we already had enough of Starbucks's pie?
Rather mimicking the Leveson debate, whereby simplistic, bitter campaigners are attempting to mobilise national stupidity while Labour laps up every ounce of political capital it can, we now return to the great tax debate
- 4 December 2012
Rand was right. Where is our John Galt?
Where is our John Galt who will say to parliament that the dire straits we are in are not a result of the sins of selfishness but of the supposed virtue of self-sacrifice?
- 19 November 2012
The “essential” role of tax havens
For all intents and purposes, the existence of tax havens makes tax competition more robust
- 12 November 2012
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