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Call for evidence: Powerful people, powerful places
11 January 2015
The aim of the Fabian Society's new project is to better equip councils, businesses and residents to mobilise communities to build and participate in local environmental projects. Through this form, we are asking organisations and individuals to share their insights on...
Continue ReadingMaking the case for higher investment rather than higher taxes
9 January 2015
Government has two options in increasing tax revenues. It can hike up tax rates or it can avoid this unpopular and unsustainable option by ensuring there are a higher number of taxpayers. The government’s current policy of creating more low-paid,...
Continue ReadingShort-termism puts privatised services at risk - just look at Hinchingbrooke
9 January 2015
For years now Andy Burnham has rightly criticised the fragmentation caused by the commercialisation of the NHS. But today’s decision by Circle Healthcare reveals a different side to the risks thrown up by privatisation of public services: short-termism. Indeed Circle’s decision...
Continue ReadingReal choices: The centre-left needs to be pragmatic on tax
8 January 2015
Tax has always been the ground on which elections are won and lost, and the battle in the run up to next May looks no different. David Cameron wheeled out £7.2bn of income tax cuts at conference, which will undoubtedly...
Continue ReadingVirtue and vice: Labour needs to shift tax burdens to unearned wealth
7 January 2015
One of the best things Einstein ever said was about the complexity of filing a tax return: “this is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher”. He meant that the act of filing a return raises the implicit...
Continue ReadingThinking positive: The power of putting in your share of taxes
6 January 2015
I voted in my first general election back in 1992. Yet, in all my active democratic life, a mainstream party has never stood up and presented tax as a good thing. Neil Kinnock, whose famous tax hikes supposedly lost him...
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