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March 9, 2020

Government 'should use tax and regulation to improve public health'

Unhealthy behaviours are shaped by social, economic and environmental factors and cannot be changed by relying on individual responsibility alone, says a new briefing from the King's Fund.
July 9, 2019

BMA says it has been warning of pensions taxation crisis for over a year

The BMA says the Government must agree to a major overhaul of pension taxation before patient care is bereft of high skilled experienced doctors and lives are lost.
June 11, 2019

Doctors will leave NHS unless pension taxation is overhauled, BMA tells Prime Minister

The British Medical Association says the NHS is on the cusp of a major workforce crisis and that patients will suffer unless there is significant reform to pension taxation.
May 14, 2019

Campaign condemns 'a nation of Ferraris and foodbanks'

The Equality Trust will be writing to the top 1000 on the Sunday Times Rich List with the aim of creating a wider range of voices in support of higher taxation.
January 23, 2019

UN expert issues new guiding principles on economic reforms and human rights

States cannot shy away from their human rights obligations in economic policymaking, even in times of economic crisis, says UN expert.
November 16, 2018

National Audit Office investigates BBC's hiring of freelancers

The National Audit Office has investigated issues related to the BBC hiring individuals on a freelance basis through personal service companies.
November 14, 2018

Urgent call for government to rescue adult social care by increased taxation

The Local Government Association has called upon the government to make the case for an increase in national taxes to secure the long-term future of adult social care services as a matter of urgency.
October 14, 2018

Public service costs 'have been shifted onto citizens'

Government is quietly shifting costs of public services on to individuals, according to a new report from the Institute for Government and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy.
September 22, 2018

Support for more tax and spend at a fifteen-year high

The majority of British people think the government should increase levels of tax and public spending, according to the British Social Attitudes survey.
July 2, 2018

Nine in ten councils say national taxation key to solving adult social care funding crisis

There is growing political and public consensus that councils should be given more funding to pay for adult social care, says LGA.