Tag Archives: tax
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The Green Party Manifesto – changing our lives to save them?
1November 21, 2019 by Paul Goldsmith
I’m reading the party manifestos so you don’t have to. Today, it’s the Green Party. I love the Green Party …
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Which is more virtuous or effective: Paying Tax or Giving to Charity?
Leave a commentJuly 4, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Rather excitingly, we here at Goldblog Towers received a packed mailbag of responses to yesterday’s blog, particularly the final question …
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No ‘Tax lock’ would be sensible economics.
Leave a commentApril 26, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Back during preparations for the 2015 General Election, there was a hole in the ‘media grid’ political parties use to …
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Tories’ Tax promise speaks volumes about..Tory promises
1May 1, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Before the 2010 election, the Conservatives said that they wouldn’t raise VAT should they be in government after it. They …
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Will the main parties ever come clean about their actual tax and spending plans?
Leave a commentApril 24, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Yesterday’s election news was dominated for a time by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (an independent think tank aiming to …
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The abolition of Non-Doms. A Labour political masterstroke?
3April 9, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
In 1799, at the same time as introducing the first income tax in the UK, Prime Minister William Pitt introduced …
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Day one and Labour quickly falls into Tories’ austerity trap
Leave a commentJanuary 6, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Amongst the astonishingly negative start to the General Election campaign yesterday, as the Tories said that Labour would crash the …
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Miliband’s deficit cutting plan is late, but better than never
Leave a commentDecember 12, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
The trouble with the speech Ed Miliband gave  yesterday on how Labour would reduce the deficit is not that it …
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We need to pass every policy announcement from now on through the ‘Coalition lens’
Leave a commentDecember 7, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
Bearing in mind their financial need to get things right, it is interesting to see that there isn’t a single …
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Cameron delivers a speech aimed at tightening the Tory defence of Downing Street
Leave a commentOctober 2, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
David Cameron made his pitch to the nation yesterday in his last conference speech before the 2015 General Election. The …
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UKIP policies – closely targetted at winning seats but not for a serious party of power
1September 30, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
Just before the UKIP conference, the Labour Party released a press statement pointing out that UKIP were “more Tory that …
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Trade Union leaders’ “NO” not as much of a surprise as it may seem
Leave a commentSeptember 13, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
An interesting decision announced on Sunday was by the Trade Union leaders of Scotland to support the “NO” campaign. One …
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Why tax the poor to make our high streets nicer?
Leave a commentJuly 28, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
I grew up in a small town north west of London called Northwood. The high street used to be a …
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Laffer says tobacco taxes should be lower…but follow the money
Leave a commentJuly 20, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
When Arthur Laffer speaks about tax, people listen. So when he delivered his opinion that tobacco taxes could be too …
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