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Tax and spending

July 2024

  • Front facade of HM Treasury Building, Whitehall, London. The head of the IFS says a potential Labour government is more likely to soften debt rules than cut taxes.

    Twice as many Britons want tax rises as want cuts, survey finds

    Study reveals support for measures to maintain public services, regardless of impact on household finances

June 2024

  • Simon Jenkins

    Message to Labour: don’t tax school fees. Make private schools work for the public good

    Simon Jenkins
  • Leonard Cohen performing on stage at the Isle of Wight Festival in August 1970.

    Brief letters
    Leonard Cohen will get us through the election despair

  • Frank Hester

    Companies linked to Tory donors given £8.4bn in public contracts since 2016

  • HMRC tax letter heading surrounded by UK currency

    Number of UK income tax payers leaps by 4.4m in three years due to threshold freeze

  • Things are not going to get better as long as oligarchs rule the roost in our democracies

    George Monbiot
  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak and Starmer clash over tax, borders and Brexit deal in final head-to-head before polling day – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK general election: suspended Labour candidate says he regrets betting on Tories to win in his constituency – as it happened

  • International scheme to tax billionaires’ wealth technically feasible, study finds

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak defends decision not to take immediate action against Tories in betting scandal – as it happened

  • UK finances are a mess and Tories and Labour keeping public in the dark, says IFS

  • Economics viewpoint
    Tories did not lay waste the economy, but the myth suits Labour’s campaign message

    Larry Elliott
  • ‘It won’t take as long as people think’: Rachel Reeves on being ‘scrappy’ – and changing Britain

  • Tax giveaways, rent caps and childcare: what the manifestos would mean for your finances

  • Labour drafts options for wealth taxes to ‘unlock’ funds for public services

  • Britain’s millionaires are fleeing. Good night and good luck, I say

    Nels Abbey
  • As a cancer patient and retired GP, I am seeing first-hand how the NHS is struggling

  • Paying private school fees years ahead may create VAT disputes, experts warn

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Chris Philp and Nick Thomas-Symonds among political figures debating crime and immigration – as it happened

  • The Guardian view on children and green space: private schools need to open up

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