George Osborne
BASC was pleased to host the Secretary of State for Defra, Steve Barclay, at the inaugural Northern Gamekeepers’ Conference on Friday 8 March in the historic grounds of the Swinton Estate in Masham, North Yorkshire. The main hall at the Swinton Park Hotel was standing room only as gamekeepers from across the north of England… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has issued a letter to Jim Fairlie, Scotland’s Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, urging for further amendments to be made at the final stage of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill. It comes as the Bill nears the final stage of a debate on March 19… Read more »
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This is, it’s now clear, George Osborne’s least politically astute Budget. It will be remembered as the year in which the 50p rate forcing the top one per cent to pay their fair share was replaced by the ‘granny tax’, stripping working pensioners of income tax relief. That strikes the majority of the public as fundamentally unfair.
George Osborne’s claims about the lack of income from the 50p tax rate are deeply uncertain, experts have warned.
