Archive: Mansion Tax

The week in review: Why do Conservatives hate reality?

They're behind you: Cameron faces attacks from his back-and-frontbenchers

David Cameron might be the Tories' best chance of keeping power, but that won;t stop them trying to get rid of him.

The Leveson Lib-Lab pact: Is this the start of a 2015 coalition?

Furious Cameron refuses to answer questions at PMQs

Week in Review: The case of Ed Miliband and the magic policy

Comment: Let's kill the mansion tax once and for all

Madsen Pirie: Mansion tax 'seems to bear the hallmarks of taxing rich people because they deserve to be punished.'

A mansion tax is economically illiterate and designed purely to punish the rich.

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Not taking the bait: Lib Dems refuse to vote with Labour on mansion tax

Unsure which way to turn? Cable toyed with backing the Labour motion at the weekend.

Liberal Democrats will hold back from supporting a Labour motion for a mansion tax today, as they stand against a policy they have promoted for several years.

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Twisting the knife: Labour will force mansion tax vote

Miliband: 'We know the Conservatives oppose this measure, even though it would only affect a small number of houses worth over £2m'

Labour will attempt to cause trouble for the coalition by forcing a vote on the mansion tax

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Week in Review: The case of Ed Miliband and the magic policy

The Labour leader is ahead in the polls and powering towards Downing Street as he leaves a divided Tory party in his wake. But you wouldn't know it.

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'A remarkable failure to learn from history': IFS slams Miliband's tax policy

Taxing numbers: The IFS was worried about Miliband's sums

Ed Miliband's audacious tax proposals were slammed by Britain's leading economic experts today as "a remarkable failure to learn from history".

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Ed Miliband 'living standard' speech in full

Ed Miliband: 10p tax rate funded by mansion tax

Read Ed Miliband's speech on the mansion tax and a 10p rate, in full and unedited.

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No mansion tax: Tories refuse to 'clobber' middle classes

George Osborne won't support a mansion tax, after all

George Osborne has rejected Liberal Democrat calls for a 'mansion tax', in a move set to prompt further recriminations between the coalition's two parties.

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Clegg looks to hit rich quick with wealth tax

Time to raid the nest eggs? Clegg calls for wealth tax

Nick Clegg has called for a fresh wealth tax to "hardwire fairness" into Britain.

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Comment: We need a Budget for growth and the squeezed middle

Chris Nicholson is director and chief executive of CentreForum, the liberal think tank.

A Budget which keeps taxes fair could show that we are, indeed, "all in this together".

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Comment: We don't need the 50p rate OR the mansion tax

Emma Boon is director of communications for the Taxpayer's Alliance

Ahead of the Budget later this month there is much discussion about how we make the rich pay more tax. Vince Cable has now suggested that he would trade the 50p income tax rate for a mansion tax. But we shouldn't feel constrained to a choice between two awful ideas.

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