By cartoonist Leon Kuhn whose work can also be seen on his own website http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk where postcards of some of his cartoons can be ordered.

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By cartoonist Leon Kuhn whose work can also be seen on his own website http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk where postcards of some of his cartoons can be ordered.

See Leon Kuhn's page on "SpideredNews | Politics" at http://www.spiderednews.com/LeonKuhn.htm

"Prepare for war of strikes over pay freeze and pensions say the public sector brothers"

By cartoonist Leon Kuhn whose work can also be seen on his own website http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk where postcards of some of his cartoons can be ordered.

See Leon Kuhn's page on "SpideredNews | Politics" at http://www.spiderednews.com/LeonKuhn.htm

Freedom from unemployment, ill-health and poor education are paid for by a strong public sector and progressive taxes The new Con-Dem coalition's stated aim is to reduce the public sector deficit. But this goal is belied by the fact that they also intend to implement tax cuts. In fact, the programme of cuts to public spending will actually depress demand and tax revenues further. The new government will find, like Margaret Thatcher before it, that taking an axe to public services will actually increase the deficit and lead to a long-lasting increase in the stock of public debt. As for the tax cuts, the coalition and supporters will present them, like Charlotte Gore, as a blow for personal freedom, rolling back the intrusive state with the seductive promise that "you will get to keep more of your money". But nothing could be further from the truth. A strong and vibrant public sector and a redistributive tax system are means by which millions of people are liberated from the.......

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Switzerland's parliament votes down a deal to allow banking giant UBS to disclose account details to US tax authorities.

Europe's internal market commissioner is expected to press for a new tax on banks to help with future melt-downs.

The government announces that £27m is to be cut from the London Olympic budget.

The revaluation of business rates has benefited Scottish firms, according to research by the Scottish government.

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By cartoonist Leon Kuhn whose work can also be seen on his own website http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk where postcards of some of his cartoons can be ordered.

See Leon Kuhn's page on "SpideredNews | Politics" at http://www.spiderednews.com/LeonKuhn.htm

The 50p tax rate for people earning £150,000 or more comes into force with the start of the new financial year.

The 50p tax rate for top earners comes into force with the start of the new financial year.

Banks are lending less despite almost £1tn of taxpayer support, and if don't open the purse strings, the UK has little chance of recovery.

Traders sold UK 10-year bonds, pushing their yield to as high as 3.99%, above the 3.91% they yielded before the budget Alistair Darling failed to reassure investors and credit rating agencies about the country's finances, so traders sent him a clear message: the budget cuts are not big enough. Despite Darling's announcement that Britain will borrow less than expected this year, investors sold UK 10-year bonds, pushing their price lower, and the yield to as high as 3.99% at one stage – above the 3.91% they yielded before the chancellor's speech. Higher yields are perceived negatively as they force governments to pay more to lure investors to buy a country's debt. They are also often used as a benchmark for long-term interest rates, such as mortgages. The UK 10-year bond yield is now higher than Italy's 3.92%, and much higher than the 3.08% offered by rock-solid German bunds.

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Taxpayers may have to wait until 2015 before they can get back the £40bn lent to prop up failing banks, the BBC understands.

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A transaction tax on banks would raise as much as £250bn a year, say campaigners.

Swiss bank UBS reports its first quarterly profit for a year, helped by lower costs and a large tax credit

Millions of people could pay more tax than they should due to a computer programme glitch which can double-tax benefits.

The number of people filing their self-assessment tax returns online hits another record, HM Revenue and Customs says.

The head of the Royal Air Force admits to worries about painful budget cuts which could follow a planned strategic defence review.

At least 14 councils have each paid out hundreds of pounds to correct errors in street signs, it is revealed.

The High Court says HM Revenue & Customs can seek £100m from 2,500 users of an offshore tax avoidance scheme.

Measures to prevent taxpayers from ever having to bail out banks again will be discussed at a meeting led by Lord Myners.

A Cambridgeshire council plans cuts and tax increases in a bid to save £1.6m and balance its budget for next year.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has held an emergency meeting with her coalition party leaders, in an effort to ease growing friction over tax cuts.

Barack Obama is expected to announce plans for a new fee to be levied on bailed out US banks later on Thursday.

Doctors and dentists are being targeted by HM Revenue & Customs in a fresh campaign against tax dodgers.

A new independent appeals panel to prevent motorists being unfairly fined by unscrupulous private car parking companies is being set up.

A new carbon tax that was supposed to go into effect in France at New Year is struck down, in a blow to President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Council officials warn people across Shropshire about telephone conmen calling about bogus tax rebates.

Beating forecasts, Italy's tax amnesty raised 95bn euros (£86bn; $137bn), the country's Finance Ministry says

Jack Straw has squandered money on new offices while cuts in legal aid pave the way for miscarriages of justice In cutting the criminal legal aid budget by £23m and enforcing new rules that mean those found not guilty in criminal trials will no longer have their full legal costs covered, officials and ministers tell us there are "tough times ahead" and that legal aid must take its share of the burden. This might be an acceptable argument if the Ministry of Justice had not been accused of wasting vast amounts of taxpayers' money on refurbishing an office block for its new headquarters. More than £130m was spent by Jack Straw's ministry – that is £915 per square foot, which is around 18 times the costs of standard refurbishment in the private sector. Place that figure against the further £25m saving to be made by the ministry forcing

Insurance companies, asset managers and stockbrokers will not be affected by the bank bonus tax

US president says banks must do their part for recovery after rescue from taxpayers.

US president says banks must do their part for recovery after rescue from taxpayers.

Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided with wealthy bankers "at the expense of hardworking Americans." Obama may not have run to the left of Samuel Gompers or Cesar Chavez, but it's not like you saw him on the campaign trail flanked by bankers from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. What inspired supporters who pushed him to his historic win was the sense that a genuine outsider was finally breaking into an exclusive club, that walls were being torn down, that things were, for lack of a better or more specific term, changing.

Then he got elected.

What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history.

Residents refusing to pay council tax in Suffolk are being targeted using new powers which could land them in prison.

Some civil servants in an assembly department earn more then their minister, the BBC learns.

"Tax on fuel disproportionately affects the poor - not the rich, so current policy is reverse income redistribution."

Northamptonshire County Council's leader is criticised over announcing job and budget cuts before consultations.

Nottinghamshire County Council says customers will not be drastically affected if it closes six walk-in advice centres as part of budget cuts.

People in Northumberland are warned to be on their guard against what council officials describe as an unscrupulous scam.

Homeowners in the Borders are warned over a council tax rebate scam being operated in the region.

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