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		<title>Non-job of the week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ealing Council is advertising for a new Media Officer paying £144.00 &#8211; £148.34 per hour. At least that&#8217;s what the advert says. Having checked with the council, I can confirm the figures quoted are the daily rate, and not the hourly rate.  The council told me they have informed the recruitment agency of the error, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proportionate taxation is the best way to a fair tax system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Commentators are continuing to respond to the 2020 Tax Commission and one of the questions raised is whether the single rate of Income Tax we have proposed is really fair. There would be a big cut in the real Basic Rate, so low and middle income earners would be left with more money in their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/bettergovernment/2012/05/proportionate-taxation-fair-tax-system.html</link>
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		<title>Why we should rip up our tax system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to be bold, argues John O&#8217;Connell: tear up our tax system and start again. George Osborne called our tax system a &#8220;spaghetti bowl&#8221; in 2010. He had a point. We have one of the world’s longest tax codes at over 11,500 pages, and this has real consequences for families and businesses in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/home/2012/05/rip-tax-system.html</link>
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		<title>Cardiff Action Day success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very successful Action Day in Cardiff on Saturday May 19th. TPA supporters gathered in Queen Street opposite Cardiff Castle and helped voice the concerns of local shopkeepers by raising a petition against the 5p plastic bag tax introduced by the Welsh Assembly six months ago. Lee Canning, Welsh grassroots co-ordinator spoke to camera teams from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/grassroots/2012/05/cardiff-action-day-success.html</link>
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		<title>Lower spending would deliver stronger economic growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of the criticisms of the 2020 Tax Commission have argued that we are wrong to claim that lower taxes and spending are associated with higher growth. In particular, Nick Pearce &#8211; Director of the IPPR &#8211; argues that &#8220;the empirical evidence doesn’t support&#8221; that view. Unfortunately he hasn&#8217;t seen fit to address the mountains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/economics/2012/05/spending-deliver-stronger-economic-growth.html</link>
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		<title>The 2020 Tax Commission cuts the real Basic Rate from 40% to 30%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the real Basic Rate? It isn&#8217;t 20 per cent. That is just Income Tax. You also pay Employees&#8217; National Insurance of 12 per cent and Employers&#8217; National Insurance of 13.8 per cent, taken out before the money even reaches your payslip. Add those taxes together and the real Basic Rate is 40 per [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/bettergovernment/2012/05/2020-tax-commission-cuts-real-basic-rate-40-30.html</link>
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		<title>The 2020 Tax Commission final report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here for the full report Click here for the report summary Click here for the full press release]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/home/2012/05/2020-tax-commission-final-report.html</link>
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		<title>New Research: The cost of collecting tax has barely fallen in over 50 years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We can today reveal that over half a century there has been no significant reduction in the costs of raising each pound of tax in Britain since 1958. This is after decades of new technology and improvement in productivity in the wider economy. Click here to read the full report HMRC has failed to collect tax more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/home/2012/05/cost-collecting-tax-barely-fallen-50-years.html</link>
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		<title>The Tax Reform Britain Needs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Both the tax rates and the number of different taxes need to be cut, writes Matthew Sinclair. From &#8220;Red&#8221; Ken Livingstone, the Labour Party candidate for mayor of London, to Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States, politicians have been getting in trouble over their taxes. With voters struggling to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/home/2012/05/tax-reform-britain.html</link>
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		<title>Police chief leaves the force with £247K payout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are used to senior public sector workers departing their post with more than generous payouts. There are some who leave one council with a large redundancy cheque, only to start work for another council or quanqo shortly afterwards. Mark Hammond is a prime example. He was made redundant from West Sussex County Council, trousering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/waste/2012/05/police-chief-leaves-force-247k-payout.html</link>
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