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11 April 2012
Another reason to fight the Con-Dems!: Class anger has been notched up by the brutal attack on the working tax credit, which is yet another body blow from this rotten Con-Dem government
10 April 2012
PCS says 'shocking' tax avoidance shows cuts are unnecessary
Commenting on reports chancellor George Osborne was "shocked" by levels of tax avoidance by millionaires, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said:...
26 October 2011
Coleman gets real: Brian Coleman, Tory councillor and London fire authority boss, is notorious for threatening Fire Brigades Union members with mass sackings and claiming vast expenses on top of his reported £120,000 a year earnings...
Teamsters local 814 president Jason Ide and PCS members outside Sotheby's London, 13.10.11, photo Kevin Parslow. PCS members will fight the job cuts
26 October 2011
Tax dodging continues while staff face cuts
Big business and the wealthy manipulate loopholes in the system to avoid and evade paying an estimated £120 billion a year in tax...
TUC demo in March
7 September 2011
Mass workers' movement - the only way to make the super-rich pay
Editorial of the Socialist, issue 684 It is a sign of the bankrupt nature of modern capitalism and its political representatives that taxation of the rich is so low some of them are asking to pay more. Warren Buffett, in an act of self-flagellation, has demanded to pay more tax.
15 December 2010
Tories to legalise tax cheating
VODAFONE, THE company dealing in mobile phones and mobile internet, has mobile profits too. Revenue and Customs (HMRC) bosses recently decided to let the phone giant avoid paying up to £6 billion tax on...
Video: Nancy Taaffe, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate for Walthamstow
29 July 2010
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate in general election 2010
10 June 2009
Compulsion: AN 'OVERSIGHT', a 'mistake' or being 'badly advised' are the typical lame excuses offered by expenses grabbing MPs. Now, Gerald Kaufman MP blames Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
10 September 2008
Scotland council tax to be scrapped
The SNP government has set out its proposal to scrap the discredited council tax and replace it with a local income tax (LIT), writes Brian Smith and Philip Stott.
28 May 2008
Over four million low-paid workers felt some relief when Gordon Brown was forced into his tax u-turn, writes Judy Beishon.
22 April 2008
Editorial: Brown's government lurching from pillar to post
Over £50 billion is being handed to fat cat bankers while five million low-paid workers are losing out from the abolition of the 10p tax band...
16 April 2008
Tax attack hits low paid workers
GORDON BROWN and New Labour are carrying out daylight robbery against the lowest paid workers, writes Tom Penman, CWU member and call centre worker, Dundee.
6 February 2008
Rich avoid paying £25 billion tax bill
A NEW report, sponsored by the TUC, accuses companies and rich individuals of using accounting tricks, loopholes and plain tax avoidance to get out of paying a cool £25 billion of tax each year... By Roger Shrives
29 March 2007
A simple conclusion from a 'simplification' budget
Editorial: THE DAILY Mirror declared triumphantly: "Historic 2p income tax cut that will make Gordon PM"...
29 November 2006
Bosses' tax moans threaten cuts
THE CONFEDERATION of British Industry (CBI) represents big business interests...
22 June 2006
BEING KNIGHTED in the honours list isn't quite such a big thing as becoming a Lord but it's obviously got some attractions for billionaire businessmen...
4 October 2003
TWO SOCIALIST Party members in Dublin - Joe Higgins TD (MP) and Dublin North Socialist Party councillor Clare Daly - are currently serving one-month prison sentences in Mountjoy prison, Dublin...
18 May 2001
THE FIRST week of election campaigning has been dominated by arguments over public spending. Hague's arguments about "tax cuts being an idea whose time has come" - hoping to emulate George W Bush -...
10 November 2000
TONY BLAIR says that he can't cut high fuel taxes because the pensioners will suffer and he'll have less to spend on the NHS and education. What rubbish!...
15 September 2000
INDUSTRY MINISTER Stephen Byers argues that cutting duty on fuel by 2p a litre would mean cutting public spending by £1 billion...
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