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    Explore "tax policy" with insightful episodes like "Will the Budget cut taxes and get rid of these traps?", "“Treasury is used to doing what Treasury wants to do”", "One year on: Are the Tories still Liz Truss' party?", "Inflation Will Fall, Just Not the Way You Think" and "China's Major Tax Problem" from podcasts like ""This is Money Podcast", "Marketplace", "The News Agents", "Merryn Talks Money" and "Economics Explained"" and more!

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    Will the Budget cut taxes and get rid of these traps?

    Will the Budget cut taxes and get rid of these traps?
    With the Budget tipped to be the Chancellor’s last roll of the dice before a General Election, expectations over tax cuts are growing.

    But what taxes could Jeremy Hunt choose to cut and why – and is there hope that he will sort out the tax mess that Britain has got stuck in.

    The higher income child benefit charge creates marginal tax rates above 50 per cent, meanwhile the removal of the personal allowance bakes in a 60 per cent income tax rate between £100,000 and £125,140.

    Should these tax traps and painfully high stamp duty be removed? On this week’s podcast Simon Lambert argues that Mr Hunt needs to have a clear out, chuck a load of stuff in the stupid tax box and bin it.

    Simon, Georgie Frost and Lee Boyce look ahead to what could be in the Budget and what it would mean for you.

    Also, on this week’s episode, energy bills are due to fall as the price cap is cut but how much will this save you?

    It’s not just tax catching people out, student loans are also proving difficult to shift as interest mounts up due to high inflation. Does the student finance system need a sort out too? And what is Simon’s triple lock for student loans plan?

    And finally, don’t get spear phished or tap jacked, Lee talks us through the new scams you need to know about.

    “Treasury is used to doing what Treasury wants to do”

    “Treasury is used to doing what Treasury wants to do”

    Though the IRS doesn’t collect racial data, it is significantly more likely to audit Black earned income tax credit filers than those of any other race. Dorothy Brown, a scholar of tax law and race, is part of a Treasury advisory committee on racial equity, and so far, she said, Secretary Janet Yellen hasn’t embraced the group’s recommendations as a priority. In this episode, the slow-going fight to fix racial disparities caused by the tax system. Plus, what hiring managers mean when they label candidates “overqualified.”

    One year on: Are the Tories still Liz Truss' party?

    One year on: Are the Tories still Liz Truss' party?

    The News Agents at the Conservative Party Conference: Day 1

    The queue to see the former PM stretched right the way through the Midland Hotel in Manchester.

    And it wasn’t to see her apologise for the chaos she caused to the economy a year ago. No, these are die hard Trussites. They love her, hate taxes and want to rip up regulation.

    She’s the most popular politician here - and that’s a headache for the PM who still hasn’t got his lines straight on major policy announcements that appear utterly muddled.

    We discuss the shape of the Conservative Party on Monday of the Manchester conference and speak to International Development minister Andrew Mitchell.

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    Inflation Will Fall, Just Not the Way You Think

    Inflation Will Fall, Just Not the Way You Think

    Inflation will eventually come down, but not rapidly or in the way it would have in previous years. So says Sharon Bell, managing director and senior European equity strategist at Goldman Sachs. She tells Merryn Somerset Webb on this week’s Merryn Talks Money that the reason for this state of affairs is specifically the tight labor market, and more broadly the demographics of the Western world.

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    Wanted — your questions. Merryn and John will be doing an AMA (Ask Me/Us Anything) session at 1pm on May 24 — which also happens to be the day the UK’s next monthly inflation data reading comes out — over on the UK Markets Today blog. So what do you want to ask us? Send your questions to jstepek2@bloomberg.net. The earlier you send them, the better the odds you’ll get a sensible answer.

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    China's Major Tax Problem

    China's Major Tax Problem
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    This Is How People Really Feel About Paying Taxes

    This Is How People Really Feel About Paying Taxes

    The politics of taxes are always fraught. In theory, everyone wants to pay less of them and bristle at the prospect of paying more. But it turns out that our feelings are more complicated and nuanced. On this episode, we speak with Stefanie Stantcheva, a Harvard economist who has done deep survey work on how people really feel about taxes. What she's discovered could be useful going forward in terms of thinking about how to design the optimal policy.

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    Ep. 522 Why Washington Elitists are so Out of Touch

    Ep. 522 Why Washington Elitists are so Out of Touch
    Is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell serious telling Trump to get familiar with his "line of work"? http://www.businessinsider.com/mitch-mcconnell-on-trump-frustration-with-congress-health-care-bill-2017-8   Devastating survey data highlights the enormous divide between Washington DC elites and the rest of us.  https://www.voterstudygroup.org/reports/2016-elections/political-divisions-in-2016-and-beyond   Why are Liberals so concerned about governed by Trump when being governed by liberals is far worse? http://ow.ly/FgOe50d6UAM https://www.wsj.com/articles/liberalisms-summer-of-17-1502320215   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Ep. 497 The Liberal Media Can't Get Out of Its Own Way

    Ep. 497 The Liberal Media Can't Get Out of Its Own Way
    In this episode I address the continued fake news crisis at CNN and their alleged blackmail of a GIF producer.  http://thefederalist.com/2017/07/05/cnn-just-published-a-fake-quote-from-abraham-lincoln/   http://www.dailywire.com/news/18286/breaking-cnn-may-have-targeted-wrong-reddit-meme-ben-shapiro   I also discuss the liberal policy meltdown in blue states using tax revenue data to show the futility of liberal economic ideology.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/get-able-bodied-americans-off-the-couch-1499188689   https://www.wsj.com/articles/blue-state-budget-breakdowns-1499198223   Finally, I address the economics of green energy and the North Korean crisis.  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-20/texas-is-too-windy-and-sunny-for-old-energy-companies-to-make-money     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    How Trickle-Down Economics Works

    How Trickle-Down Economics Works

    The concept of trickle-down economics is tied to Ronald Reagan, but the idea's been around and in use since the 20s. It's simple: Give more money to the wealthy and they can use it to rev up an economy. But is the whole thing just a scam?

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