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I'm a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth; this blog mainly covers that, sometimes general politics and policy and occasionally anything else that takes my fancy.
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Zero council tax increase, again
Wandsworth is planning on keeping council tax at the same rate for the third year running. In one of those bizarre twists of local government finance Wandsworth’s average council tax is dropping because the Putney and Wimbledon Commons Conservators (who levy a precept to maintain the commons) are reducing their precept. The video features Deputy
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Robin Hood, Robin Hood, levies a small tax that no-one notices, gives to undefined good causes
The Robin Hood Tax has been a fascinating example of emotion defeating logic and fact. As it invariably will. I’m a Conservative, so I’m instinctively inclined not to support increases in tax, let alone new taxes. That’s not to say I don’t recognise the need for tax and (some) of what it funds. But the
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Darling’s last pre-Budget report
The earliest post on this blog is from 24 November 2008 on the benefits of low taxation (actually the blog wasn’t public until nearly a month later, on 17 December, but that was the oldest surviving test post). In it I suggested that the temporary VAT cut probably wasn’t that good a measure, and that
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Businesses vote for more tax?
The Garrett Business Park Business Improvement District (BID) vote was counted yesterday. One of the powers a BID has is to charge an extra levy on business rates to be invested within the district. The proposal came about after a lot of hard work from the business association and Angela Graham, one of the local
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City Hall – Livingstone = £400
Isn’t it odd to hear the Labour and Green Party GLA members belittling Boris Johnson’s council freeze because it will only save 11p a week on council tax? These are the same people who presumably believe that 2.5% off VAT will save the world. What they fail to realise is that we finally have a
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The benefits of low taxation
Today Alistair Darling will announce that Labour have finally seen the benefits of low taxation. Or has he? The BBC is currently reporting an expected temporary reduction in VAT to 15%, along with the introduction of a new higher rate tax band and the postponement of various other changes. In other words, we’re increasing taxes, not
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