Sentences with phrase «taxes from labour»

There are basically two practical possibilities - taxes from labour, or taxes from consumption.

Not exact matches

The comments from Defense Minister Michael Fallon in an interview with the Daily Telegraph suggested that the ruling Conservative Party would not increase the top rate of income tax, striking a contrast with main opposition Labour Party.

«I never hear talk about measures that would encourage upward harmonization of labour or environmental standards... tax measures that would prevent corporations from engaging in transfer pricing or discourage shifting profits to tax havens.

Companies looking to import from Brazil will also find difficulties, as, according to the Economist, the combination of a complex tax code, strict labour laws and economic protectionism, Brazil's manufacturing base is the fourth - least productive amongst OECD countries.

Sustain has welcomed commitments from shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth that a future Labour Government would introduce legal standards for hospital food, extend the sugary drinks tax and ban junk food advertising during family TV, for the benefit of the nation's health.

A pre-election report from the Toronto Region Board of Trade says Ontario businesses face challenges including high labour costs and energy prices, and urges the next government to cut property taxes to help keep companies competitive.

12:24 - Right - after a question on families from a Labour MP, it's time for Ian Swales - the improbable Liberal Democrat MP from Redcar - who invites Cameron to comment on councils thinking of turning down the government's offered council tax freeze.

Gordon Brown's authority faces another test as Labour backbenchers square up over an amendment barring tax exiles from being party donors.

She opposed Scottish Labour's proposal for a tax rise, unlike the SNP who recoiled from their anti-austerity rhetoric and claimed a tax rebate for low earners was administratively impractical.

Labour and Lib Dem peers have inflicted a blow against the government after they passed an amendment to the political parties and elections bill barring tax exiles from donating to political parties.

Light years away from Labour's manifesto and the Corbynite circle running the show, households have been burdened with council tax debts as a result of Tory cuts to council tax benefit.

The labour market policies that the center - right parties pro-posed in the 2006 election campaign and implemented in 2006 — 2010 were designed to cut benefits for the long - term unemployed while cutting taxes on incomes from paid employment.

I don't want them to work all the hours God gives just to suffer from punitive taxes to pay for Labour's profligate spending.

For middle class voters to be backing the Labour manifesto isn't a total shock - it protected 95 % of people from tax rises whilst spending big on schools and the NHS - but for them to vote for Corbyn is a much bigger deal.

Corbyn won't win those voters back from the SNP, and nor will he help Labour recover in other suburbs, where voter turn - out is almost as high as antipathy to higher taxes.

Apparently labour introduced an increase of pension age to 65 in 1995 but failed to inform the women of the 50's who would be most directly affected, the government failed its legal duty to inform all women personally of this change, they tried to get away with this by stating they didn't have any current details, except they forget that they have all details from PAYE, us women still received all our NI demands and self - assessments as well as any tax or child benefit details, so they do have out details, they just failed to carry out this legal action.

[130][131] In September 2011, Miliband stated that a future Labour Government would immediately cut the cap on tuition fees for university students from # 9,000 per year to # 6,000, though he also stated that he remained committed to a graduate tax in the long - run.

According to a ComRes poll, for example, a clear majority of public supports raising the minimum wage and increasing the top rate of tax to 50p from 45p — two key Labour pledges.

Would shifting the tax burden to ask more from those who have done best be old Labour, even to fund council tax cuts for the many?

Despite picking up some support from the Liberal Democrats, Labour is still significantly behind the coalition on key issues including welfare, immigration and the balance between tax rises and spending cuts.

The sudden, synthetic fury we're seeing from the Labour party is nothing more than an attempt to distract people from the most important change coming into effect: the tax cut for ordinary working people delivered by the Liberal Democrats.

So I will take no lectures from the Labour party on tax — the Liberal Democrats are making the tax system fair.

His rhetoric about Labour and the Lib Dems» similarities on tax and public services was never far away from courting them in the event of a hung parliament.

This issue of tax and secrecy jurisdictions also matters to republicanism for another reason: the operation of tax havens has the effect of shifting the economic burdens of civic life from capital onto labour and supporting radical inequalities in wealth without the state being able effectively to regulate these economic dimensions of equality.

A tax pledge from Labour had an effect in the real world because people believed Ed Miliband could had a chance of winning and making it happen.

Its fall in support was partially reversed for five months from last September — a period when Labour MPs voted against attacking Syria and plans to freeze energy prices and repeal the Bedroom Tax were announced.

Jeremy Corbyn's latest move — to give reassurance that Labour will campaign to remain in Europe and then, if elected in 2020, reverse from the inside any diminution of workers» rights which Cameron may have secured — is a smart move when it is linked with pushing through the # 50bn financial transactions tax on almost -LSB-...]

But you omit from your urging that «Labour should build mass support for an alternative that would put jobs, services and tax justice ahead of the needs of the City» commendation of motherhood and apple pie.

Labour's proposals are separate from the financial transactions tax being discussed by EU member states.

And yes it does mean looking at tax again but also, a freer labour market, the hiring and firing proposals to make sure that young people aren't turned away from jobs because of the very onerous social employment protection legislation in this country, so we should say to the Liberals on things like that which they are blocking, «Listen we are in a real hole now.

Conservative plans to introduce a marriage tax break worth up to # 150 a year for couples on low and middle incomes are facing criticism from Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

When George Osborne first announced the Tories» inheritance tax cuts policy, to great fanfare, in 2007, Labour responded with its own policy, to increase the nil - rate band from # 325,000 to # 350,000 from April 2010.

At best Fallon's intervention today will have moved on the debate from Labour's popular non-dom tax policy announcement.

The CIOT argues that the system for exempting from tax employees» employment expenses and certain employer - provided «benefits» needs to be simplified if it is to keep pace with changes in the labour market and the move away from «traditional» employment.

Labour called on the government to properly fund the programme via increased tax revenues from banks.

The Telegraph also reported that Dennis Bates, husband of Labour MP Meg Munn, received # 5,000 for personal tax advice from several ministers, including the Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Gillian Merron, John Healey and Jim Knight.

Even so, the economy determined both elections: in 1992, because voters were scared of the taxes they would have to pay under Labour; in 1997, because the Conservatives never recovered from the humiliation of the pound crashing out of Europe's exchange rate mechanism on Black Wednesday more than four years earlier.

Going back to ComRes, the fact that putting the question from a Conservative angle (the Conservatives will spend less and not increases taxes) and a Labour angle (Labour will spend more, but will increase taxes) results in almost identical answers would be fascinating... if the questions were put independently to different people using a split sample.

Labour should emphasise tax justice, a living wage, secure jobs, a resolution to the housing crisis, and shifting the economy from one rigged in favour of those at the top in favour of working people.

On tax rises, the IFS has looked at the manifestos, and feel they imply an extra # 7 billion for Labour, an extra # 3 billion for Conservatives (reimposing half the effective «cut» from their much vaunted jobs tax «cut») and the Lib Dems are pretty much on target.

Voters in the south no longer see Labour as the party of fairness and believe they get «little or nothing» back from government from their taxes, a report to be published next month will argue.

Under Labour's plans 95 per cent of taxpayers will be guaranteed no increase in their income tax contributions and everyone will be protected from any increase in personal National Insurance Contributions and VAT.

Using figures provided by the Treasury, Robert Halfon today points out that a fifth of income tax receipts go towards funding benefits — and he goes on from there to attack Labour for wanting to impose a «welfare tax».

I have to say I think this is all about the Labour Party trying to detract from the point we have been making about the deal that they would have to do with the SNP, which is going to cost people in this country a lot of money and is not something I think that we want to see - it would result in more debt, more borrowing, higher taxes.

The shadow energy secretary said New Labour had become «ideologically beached» because it was haunted by old ghosts from the past, when the party was viewed as tax - raising and anti-American.

What the public is really desperate to hear from Labour is that it will take a stand against at least the worst of the Tory attacks on people's living standards, e.g. reverse the iniquitous bedroom tax and call a halt to the callous stripping of seriously disabled people of their benefits on the utterly spurious grounds under the Atos farcical assessments that they are fit for work.

He faced sustained questioning on the issue from Labour MP Karen Buck, who pointed out the emergency Budget significantly increases the number of households who will be subjected to marginal tax rates of deduction.

Miss Reeves, who is deputy to Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, said Labour had no intention of increasing taxes on anyone apart from those «right at the top» of the income scale.

A spokesman for Zac Goldsmith hit back, telling Politics.co.uk: «Khan experimented with Corbyn and helped elect a Labour leadership who want a new tax on family heirlooms, including jewellery — if he is allowed to experiment with London from City Hall he represents a threat to the economic security of every family in our City.»

In response to James» question about the Labour leadership candidates — Ed Miliband campaigned for Simon Hughes to speak out & is encouraging his supporters to call on the Lib Dems to stand up for their values, David Miliband has suggested ending the charitable status of fee - paying schools and (one of those non-monetary aspects to reducing inequality) giving representation to ordinary workers on corporate remunertion committees, Ed Balls has strongly opposed the VAT rise and is calling for a graduate tax instead of higher tuition fees, Andy Burnham has reiterated his support for a National Care Service and spoken out on the abolition of the Future Jobs Fund, Diane Abbot has called for fair taxation, cancelling Trident, and setting a timetable for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.