Posts Tagged ‘taxation’

Reducing inequality should be aspirational, not just an aspiration

Reducing inequality should be aspirational, not just an aspiration

We’ll never close the income gap until the haves realise it’s in their best interest, too

If they can train as soldiers, we should let them vote

If they can train as soldiers, we should let them vote

They can pay £550m in taxation and fight in our name, but 16 and 17-year-olds still can’t vote. A long-term campaigner believes it is time to recognise and hear the views of 1.5m people in our country

Change the mindset and you can fix the economy

Change the mindset and you can fix the economy

The Welsh Liberal Democrats begin their Autumn conference today in Wrexham, one of the key local authorities they control in Wales. Ahead of her keynote speech to conference, Welsh party leader Kirsty Williams sets out her party’s approach to revitialising Welsh economic development policy

Paper tigers and dragged feet

Paper tigers and dragged feet

As their party conference begins in Manchester, a leading Welsh Conservative claims that the Welsh Assembly Government has squandered a series of opportunities that would have helped Wales combat the recession

The taxing task facing our parties

The taxing task facing our parties

As the Liberal Democrat Conference draws to a close, it’s clear that public spending is a key battleground. If the next election is going to be about spending cuts and the economy, then it’s not just the way our money is invested which will be a political talking point – taxation is moving centre stage

One size doesn’t fit all

One size doesn’t fit all

Since the UK’s businesses contribute more in direct taxation to local authority funding than all the money raised from Council Tax, surely the funding system they pay into should be geared so that it doesn’t penalise small businesses?