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Showing posts with label income tax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label income tax. Show all posts

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Income tax 'must rise by 7p to pay back Britain's debts'

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Labels: govt debt, income tax

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Government debt ‘nearly three times higher than official figure’

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Labels: Alistair Darling, govt borrowing, govt debt, income tax, public finance, Treasury

Sunday, 20 September 2009

Documents reveal plans for huge rise in income tax Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214795/Documents-reveal-plans-huge-rise-income

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Labels: income tax, tax revenues

Thursday, 7 May 2009

Average worker pays £7.27 an hour in tax

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Labels: income tax, tax burden, taxation

Thursday, 23 April 2009

61p tax rate and rich perk clawback 'will force top talent to go abroad'

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Labels: income tax, tax burden, tax revenues, taxation
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Useful A-level Economics links

  • Labour Behind the Label - which companies exploit foreign labour
  • MPW Cambridge Economics Portal
  • Eurostat - all economic stats for the EU
  • Deutsche Bank - brilliant free economics research site
  • ONS - Office for National Statistics UK
  • Gapminder.org - amazing data about different countries
  • WTO World Trade Organisation
  • Bank of England MPC minutes for download
  • European Central Bank
  • The World Bank - fighting poverty through development
  • IMF - International Monetary Fund
  • OECD - Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development
  • CBI - Confederation of British Industry
  • Economicshelp.org - excellent advice for A-level students
  • Joseph Rowntree Foundation - UK thinktank for poverty and equity issues
  • MPW Economics Web Portal
  • Sloman economics site
  • Telegraph Finance & Economics
  • Trades Union Congress (TUC) - main UK union lobby group
 

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