Estimates used by George Osborne to justify the axing of the 50p top tax rate are "highly uncertain", an influential group of MPs warned today. The...

Rather than undermining a cornerstone of charitable giving, the government should be thinking of how it can reduce the tax burden on charities.

What should local authorities do when faced with youth unemployment, child obesity, increased gang activity, and rioting teens? Cut children's services!

David Cameron dismissed claims families with children will lose £511 a year on average from today under tax and benefit changes - insisting the Torie...

George Osborne has robustly defended his decision to scrap the 50p tax rate, as "it raised no money at all". Speaking to MPs on the Treasury Select...

George Osborne has come under fire from MPs for his decision to add 20% VAT on hot pasties and pies. In a grilling by John Mann MP, Osborne defend...

The Chancellor has fended off allegations that the many parts of his latest Budget had been leaked to the press beforehand. Under questioning by t...

The Chancellor's plans for economic recovery have been dismissed as "rather weak", by one of the City's top economists. The government has placed a...

Chancellor George Osborne was accused by Labour tonight of raiding the NHS budget as it emerged that planned spending by the health service has been r...

I am a winner. Not in terms of the important stuff like being handsome or sporty or dressing well, but in terms of the 2012 Budget. A quick spin on th...

The simple message for the Chancellor coming out of this Budget from the travel industry is this: we support your efforts to make the UK the most competitive place to do business in the world, but to do this we need you to apply that logic to every tax, not just the ones voters have heard about.

Mr Deputy Speaker. The Chancellor spoke for an hour. But there was one phrase that did not pass his lips. One claim he has abandoned. ...

George Osborne has delivered his 2012 Budget to the Commons, and as expected the 50p top rate of tax is being cut to 45p, a measure which will come in...

The Chancellor has predicted slightly better than expected economic growth as he unveiled a Budget, which he said, "rewards working families and helps...

Every taxpayer is to receive a personal statement spelling out exactly how much of their income is paid to the state and on what it is being spent. ...

Every taxpayer is to receive a personal statement spelling out exactly how much of their income is paid to the state and on what it is being spent. ...

On the week before the Budget, ministers who have been involved in deciding it normally go into a state of "purdah" and not say anything in advance ab...

With the Budget now just days away the families that we work with are waiting with baited breath to see if the Chancellor will throw their finances a lifeline or push them further beneath the waves.

George Osborne is putting the finishing touches to his Budget amid claims he is prepared to cut the 50p top rate of tax. Downing Street insisted th...

Chancellor George Osborne was issued a pre-Budget warning by an influential credit rating agency as it issued a "negative" outlook on the prospects of...

Britain's triple-A credit rating is increasingly at risk, a leading agency indicated today as it downgraded the economy's outlook from stable to negat...