Tory Millionaires Day 6 April 2013

Are we really all in this together?

FACT This Tory/LibDem government is planing to cut the top rate tax band on April 6th.

It is estimated that 13,000 millionaires in this country will be £100,000 better off (I can't verify this but believe it to be accurate).

FACT This will happen at the same time that many millions of ordinary workers are facing yet another year of pay cuts?

FACT One rule for the rich and powerful in this country and another for everyone else?

Morality of Tax - My piece for yesterday's Sunday Times

Jimmy Carr, Gary Barlow – it’s been quite a week for moralising about tax fairness at the top. Mr Cameron has launched in with both feet describing Carr’s Jersey tax arrangements as "straightforward tax avoidance" and in doing so offering a veritable feast of inevitable and uncomfortable stories about other Tory tax dodging donors and in the case of Gary Barlow OBE, supporters who have rewarded