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Posts Tagged: National Insurance Contribution

Gerard Lyons: Sunak should raise the lower tax threshold this autumn to put more money in people’s pockets.

His Spring Statement was a missed opportunity despite some welcome measures – and further measures may be unveiled during the months ahead.

By Dr Gerard Lyons | 5 April 2022

David Willetts: The case for Sunak announcing a windfall tax on energy companies next week

Of the main tax cut candidates urged on the Chancellor, the best available is a VAT fuel reduction.

By Lord Willetts | 15 March 2022

David Gauke: Higher Universal Credit, public sector pay, state pensions. And perhaps tax cuts. What Sunak should do next.

If the war lasts a few years at most, the Chancellor can take the hit. If it’s a new normal that lasts for decades, the outlook is grim.

By David Gauke | 14 March 2022

David Hare: How Javid can ensure the elective recovery plan for the NHS delivers

Clear milestones are needed to reassure people that action is being taken now to clear the backlog.

By David Hare | 18 February 2022

David Gauke: To cut taxes and raise spending would be unsustainable – and so fail to salvage the cost of living

The fundamental problem is that costs are going up faster than we are getting more productive.

By David Gauke | 14 February 2022

David Willetts: The case for the National Insurance increase

We cannot be the tax cutters we were in the 1980s because we are now an older country than we were then.

By Lord Willetts | 28 January 2022

Gerard Lyons: How to tackle the cost of living crisis

Control the controllables. So provide assistance, ease the pain, reverse the tax hikes, explain why – and focus on a pro-growth strategy.

By Dr Gerard Lyons | 11 January 2022

John Redwood: Has the Government met its 2019 manifesto commitments? Here’s my assessment on where we are at.

Its main difficulties surround the related issues of getting Brexit done, cutting low and no skilled migration and keeping taxes down.

By John Redwood MP | 10 January 2022

Ryan Bourne: For Sunak, cutting the basic rate of income tax shouldn’t be a political priority right now

The Chancellor’s team reportedly wants to cut it from 20 per cent to 19 per cent in 2023. Here’s why that wouldn’t be a good idea.

By Ryan Bourne | 15 December 2021

David Gauke: Oomph and optimism don’t always vanquish the doomsters and gloomsters

Here are six recent examples of how the Prime Minister has been mugged by reality.

By David Gauke | 22 November 2021

Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 14) National Insurance Contributions Bill

Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.

By Paul Goodman | 21 November 2021

Lisa Townsend: Balancing the nation’s finances with policing needs is the priority for PCCs like me

I want to ensure that every pound that goes into policing makes us safer, while also protecting the taxpayer.

By Lisa Townsend | 16 November 2021

David Gauke: Johnson’s health and social care plan. A betrayal of Conservative principles? No – because, at one level, there aren’t any.

This can give the Tories a tremendous advantage in a democracy because the public, as a whole, does not have fixed views either.

By David Gauke | 13 September 2021

Heath and Social Care 2) Damian Green: I worry that the spending switch from the NHS to social care may never happen.

I cannot envisage the circumstances in which those at the top of the NHS agree to divert a higher proportion of the Levy to care.

By Damian Green MP | 8 September 2021

James Frayne: The scale of the unpopularity of Council Tax is staggering

The Conservatives should think about the implications of what would happen if Labour got serious on this issue.

By James Frayne | 19 April 2021

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