Knowledge Plus Vat
AS FOR the taxes on knowledge, I can do no better that to cite a classic judgment: `Taxes on the communications of minds, taxes on the distribution of information and ideas,......
Get Out And Push
I HAVE spent much of the last two week- ends on the West Coast main line, where trains were halted for hours because the electricity had been cut off. I found that worrying. In......
Clarke's Single Malts
THIS WILL be his cue for the single malts. Every interest in the land has been pressing its pet tax reform on him, but none of them, I dare say, so comprehensive as this. At......
Walking On
THE CHANCELLOR has graciously allowed the Bank of England a walk-on part in the Changing of the Interest Rate. To think that, not so long ago, the Radcliffe Committee advised......
City And Suburban
The Gladstone test making wealth fructify in the pockets of the people CHRISTOPHER FILDES C hancellors measure themselves against William Ewart Gladstone. He sought to let......
Nap Selection
TIP FOR Budget day from Huntingdon, where Captain Threadneedle's race was won in style by Tax The Devil. The Chan- cellor may be relieved to hear that Chiltern Hundreds finished......
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