CBI welcomes Blair's low-tax pledge
- Director general of the CBI Digby Jones has welcomed Tony Blair's conciliatory moves towards business at the lobbying group's annual conference.
- http://www.accountancyage.com/accountancyage/news/2034203/cbi-welcomes-blair-low-tax-pledge

Tax shock for small businesses
- Buried in the small-print of the pre-Budget report is a controversial new proposal which could affect 300,000 small businesses by cracking down on the use of dividends to lower the National Insurance burden on owners.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3308393.stm

What is 'Tax freedom day'?
- Tax Freedom Day is the day on which the average UK taxpayer can expect to stop working for the government and instead begin earning money for themselves.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2968930.stm

Telegraph | News | Tories plan a tax break
- Michael Howard will promise today to make Tax Freedom Day - the day each year when people stop working for the taxman and start working for themselves - a public holiday if the Conservatives are returned to government.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/27/ntory127.xml

Tax cuts may take us years, say the Tories
- A Conservative government under Michael Howard would have to wait several years before introducing significant tax cuts, Oliver Letwin, the shadow chancellor, indicated.
- http://news.google.co.uk/url?ntc=53SJ3&q=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml%3Fxml%3D/news/2003/12/01/ntory01.xml%26sSheet%3D/news/2003/12/01/ixhome.html

Poll blow for Labour's big spenders
- Public confidence in Tony Blair's ability to deliver public service improvements has slumped to a new low, with two out of three voters now convinced that the billions of pounds being spent by the Government will be wasted.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/22/nblair22.xml

Taxes are 'poisoning' us
- BRITAIN'S place as the world's fourth largest economy is being "poisoned" by Labour taxes and red tape, Tory leader Michael Howard said yesterday.
- http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003532195,00.html