The UK economy: A dashboard
This interactive dashboard shows data on economic growth, inflation, trade, employment, government borrowing and debt across the UK.
The American economist James Tobin first made the suggestion for a tax on currency transactions to dissuade short term currency speculation in the 1970s. Recently the idea of a more general 'Tobin-like' tax on financial transactions has been discussed, in the wake of the global financial crisis, and the desire to recover the considerable costs of public bailouts given to this sector. This note gives some historical background to the issue, while a second note (SN06184) looks at recent developments.
The Tobin tax : earlier debates (143KB PDF)
The Tobin tax : earlier debates (143KB PDF)
This interactive dashboard shows data on economic growth, inflation, trade, employment, government borrowing and debt across the UK.
The High Income Child Benefit Charge provides for Child Benefit to be clawed back through the tax system from families where the highest earner has an income in excess of a set threshold, now set at £60,000.
Answers to frequently asked questions relating to banking, credit, mortgages, investments and financial service fraud.