Unite has learned that secret changes to the way procurement rules operate on the heavily delayed Crossrail project mean that contractors are able to ignore previous rules and boost their profits by…Read more…
Government should plough money into social care, not tax cuts
Tax cuts for the rich have deprived the UK public of almost £14 billion
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‘Vigorous’ case
Unite will be making ‘a vigorous and well-argued response’ to the consultation on the future of wholly owned subsidiaries (WOSs) set up by NHS trusts and designed to avoid paying tax. Unite,…Read more…
‘On the right track’
The British press is the least trusted in Europe – even below non-EU countries such as North Macedonia and Serbia. This may not be a surprising statistic, given the British press’ massive…Read more…
‘Tax haven’ row
A Crewe engineering company, which wants to axe 62 jobs, has not been ‘frank and open’ about the true state of its finances, Unite said today (August 13). Unite is balloting for industrial…Read more…
“Shameful wealth raid”
At a time when years of austerity have slammed households who are struggling to make ends meet, a new analysis has shown large multinational companies are paying substantially less tax since the…Read more…
Tax cut for rich means billions lost to Exchequer
Cutting the income tax for people earning more than £1m per year has deprived the Exchequer of more than £8.6bn over the past five years, according to new analysis by UNISON published today (Sunday)….Read more…
Tax avoidance and tax havens must be tackled
Those with the most at their disposal should be making the biggest contribution to our public services
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Tide is turning against government’s austerity programme, says UNISON
The public willingness to accept cuts to public services is ‘exhausted’
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I wish I could be shocked by the “Panama Papers”
Tax avoidance on this scale is simply the poorest paying the price for the grubby venality of the rich. Governments around the world now need to develop concrete and workable solutions to root out…Read more…
“tax avoidance, everyone does it”
Brilliant. Tories justifying tax avoidance by rich. Hat tip Wrexham for Labour Facebook. Read more…