Public support for Ed Ball's plan to reintroduce the 50p tax
rate for top earners stands at 61 %, despite several days of attacks from the media and business leaders.
2016 - 17 LLP filing highlights spike in
pay for top earner as remuneration for key management team also rises 23 %
Average incomes have grown more rapidly in Ontario than Canada -
wide for top earners and the bottom 50 per cent alike; but so has inflation.
Criticising the pay
freeze for top earners announced by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, last night, Osborne said: «To sneak out a public sector pay announcement in the middle of a Conservative conference shows these Labour politicians are better at writing books about courage than displaying it,» a reference to Gordon Brown's book Courage: Eight Portraits.
Rep. Robyn Porter, a Democrat from New Haven, criticized Malloy and top legislative leaders from both parties for declaring early in the budget process that tax
increases for top earners were off the table.
Allow the Bush Tax Cuts to
expire for top earners, raising the top 2 tax brackets to 36 % and 39.6 %, and raising the taxes on capital gains and dividends back to 20 %
When media outlets reported last month that billionaire Murray Edwards is leaving Calgary for the United Kingdom, some saw it as proof that tax
hikes for top earners are driving away the rich.
Freshfields partners vote overwhelmingly in favour of new single lockstep ladder peaking at around # 3m for top earners
In mid-January, a marketing research firm indicated that New Jersey lost approximately 10,000 millionaire households and speculated that the state's high tax
rate for top earners may have led to the exodus.
Now the issue Congress has to deal with is whether to extend the cuts to all, or eliminate
them for the top earners.
Ed Balls is savagely attacked by the press and business think tanks after he pledges to re-introduce the 50p tax rate for top earners
Treasury Chief Secretary Liam Byrne said the increase was explained by recovery in the economy as the country comes out of recession and existing tax plans such as the 50p rate
for top earners.
It's about the new 50p tax rate
for top earners.
Conservative leader David Cameron has indicated he is unlikely to reverse Gordon Brown's new 45p rate for top earners
Although Ed Miliband described the LibDems as Tory accomplices in dismantling the NHS, trebling student fees and cutting tax
for top earners, he acknowledged their role in derailing parliamentary boundary changes.