Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has attacked Labour for trying to "pull the wool over people's eyes" about sweeping tax changes that came into effect...

The ten things you need to know on Wednesday 20 March 2013... 1) IT'S HURTING, BUT IS IT WORKING? George Osborne will present his fourth Budget ...

Ed Miliband has insisted Labour was the "only alternative" to the coalition Government as he joined his by-election campaigners in Eastleigh. The o...

Ukip believes in merging income tax and national insurance into a flat rate income tax to greatly simplify our tax code, which currently stands at over 11,000 pages.

While it may seem obvious on many levels that of course the government should take money from higher earners in a difficult economic environment - in particular when one of the other political debates raging at the moment is about introducing real-terms benefit cuts for those on the lowest incomes, a move likely to plunge even more children into poverty - it has always struck me as singularly unfair that the only higher earners being asked to pay more are those with children.

At CPAG we believe as strongly as anyone that higher earners need to make a larger, fairer contribution to dealing with the deficit. But most high earners don't have children living with them. Why are the majority of high earners being left out?

We're expecting David Cameron to confirm this week that the coalition's plans for House of Lords reform are going to be dropped, after The Daily Teleg...

The scale of the challenge facing George Osborne to cut Britain's debt was laid bare on Tuesday morning when official figures showed public borrowing ...

Some of the wealthiest people in the country are donating to charities which "don't do a great deal of charitable work" in order to "wipe out" their i...

George Osborne has described being "shocked" to discover that some of the wealthiest people in the country pay "virtually no" income tax. The Chanc...

Labour has accused George Osborne of showing "utter contempt" for parliament by leaking much of his Budget to the newspapers before it was delivered t...

George Osborne was today urged by Labour to implement "significant tax cuts" in next month's Budget. Shadow chancellor Ed Balls suggested the Gover...

Clegg has, very publicly, ahead of the next budget, urged Chancellor George Osborne to speed up coalition plans to take the lowest earners out of income tax, and to pay for this by taxing richer people

On Wednesday after PMQs the Tory MP for Ipswich, Ben Gummer, will introduce a Bill to the Commons which would see every taxpayer getting an annual bre...

Overall 2011 has been a challenging year not least with the financial crisis in the Eurozone, but a year of achievements nonetheless.

The country's top tax official is to retire next summer. Dave Hartnett, head of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), was forced into an apology to 1.4 mi...

George Osborne should scrap the 50p top rate of income tax "at the earliest opportunity" to boost growth, a group of leading economists have...

It is the potential for data gathering that most excites politicians of certain shades. This could even have a benefit, in that a centralised valuation of estates throughout the country could contribute to updating bandings for council tax - a long overdue task.