Britain’s Public Services ‘Not Good Enough and Cost Too Much’ Finds Govt Auditor
Auditor-general warns public services are “not good enough and cost too much” and the present approach is “not sustainable to carry on”.

Auditor-general warns public services are “not good enough and cost too much” and the present approach is “not sustainable to carry on”.
British millionaires are fleeing the country in record numbers since Sir Keir Starmer’s left-wing Labour Party claimed last year’s election win and set out in socialist fashion to try and tax the country into prosperity.
Democrat-run New York City will enforce its much-debated plan to charge drivers to enter the center of Manhattan from Sunday, following years of bureaucratic and legal arm wrestling.
UK lawmakers were lobbied by Tesla to strengthen rules on carbon emissions from cars and heavy vehicles, according to documents revealing the electric carmaker continued to push for increased taxes on fossil fuel cars.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the radical leftist President of Brazil currently hosting the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, will tell attendees Monday the time has come for a global taxation impost on ultra wealthy individuals.
The offices of U.S. streaming giant Netflix were raided by tax investigators Tuesday in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into alleged tax fraud laundering, a French judicial source revealed.
Labour said during election they would not “increase taxes on working people”, but now concede workers will be feeling the pinch after all.
The announcement of big tax, borrow, and spend budget met with groans of shock from opposition benches in the UK Parliament.
In power for just 115 days, Sir Keir’s approval rating among a deeply pessimistic public has collapsed a record 49 points since the election.
Britain’s left-wing PM is laying down covering fire for his budget on Wednesday, decrying those who criticised their plan as “populists”.
UK set to miss out on billions in tax on gasoline after it pushed drivers to adopt electric cars, and wants to make up the shortfall.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Wednesday called for raising taxes on the world’s wealthiest people, their assets, their properties, and big business while alleviating soaring debt obligations of smaller countries.
An inheritance tax raid to “redistribute” wealth is a possibility for a Labour government if it gets into power, a leaked recording of a shadow frontbencher suggests.
New Zealand is scrapping a scheme to price gas emissions from livestock — squelching a so-called burp and fart tax initiated under the previous left-wing government led by now departed authoritarian Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Hunter Biden’s attempt to have all his tax charges thrown out was defeated Monday, letting the criminal case against him move forward.
It’s election time in Britain, so the Tories have dusted down their long-neglected conservative rhetoric, but there’s a real problem.
The UK govt is making a last-ditch bid for votes with a small tax cut, one unfortunately absolutely dwarfed by the size of tax hikes.
UK looking to increase “female participation” in the workforce to generate “more taxes being paid”, Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt says.
Scores of tractors were parked outside Greece’s parliament Tuesday, horns blaring, as thousands of farmers make their anger heard.
John Castro, a Texas man who fought to keep former President Trump off the ballot, has been arrested on federal tax charges.
Conservatives hoping voters won’t notice they are promising tax cuts while actually pushing taxation to historic highs by stealth.
The German government is giving up a proposal to scrap a car tax exemption for farming vehicles and will stagger agricultural tax increases.
Hunter Biden will make his first appearance in California federal court early next year over felony tax charges in the state.
British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt brags of tax cuts while failing to mention they are massively outweighed by the huge scale of tax rises.
The stealth tax raid on working people by Britain’s nominally Conservative government is to take even more money than initially thought.
Major gulf between a willingness to eat in-season fruit and veg, and drastic civilisational change like not having children, research finds.
UK gov planning to time badly-needed tax cuts to give the maximum feeling of uplift at next election, which may take place next Autumn.
Officials from India´s Income Tax department began conducting searches Tuesday at the BBC´s offices in the capital, New Delhi.
Welfare is harming marriage, with wealthy couples who don’t rely on benefits twice as likely to be married before they have kids: report.
Former prime minister Liz Truss has spoken out on her ouster, saying a MPs within her own party who have bought into leftist tax-and-spend orthodoxy, the deep state, and foreign actors including U.S. President Joe Biden killed her premiership before she had “a realistic chance” to govern.
Personal taxes surged a remarkable 11.45 per cent, an average increase of over £800 per household, a report claims, with worse to come.
Nadhim Zahawi out amid allegations he settled a multimillion-dollar unpaid tax bill while he was in charge of the country’s Treasury.
Hunt said taming inflation is more important than cutting taxes, resisting calls from some for immediate tax breaks.
A swelling state means dependency on handouts is at the highest level ever, with 54% of UK households ‘putting in’ less than they get out.
Hungary has exempted young mothers from paying income tax as it continues to expand the package of pro-family formation policies it has introduced as an alternative to mass migration.
The UK’s ‘stealth’ grab will drag thousands of families into a “tax trap” that will see some face a marginal tax rate as high as 96 per cent.
The British middle class will be rinsed for tax money in a ‘stealth’ grab that will leave some families £40,000 worse off this decade.
The failure of the Truss govt has set back any hope of cutting now record-high taxes for “a generation”, a prominent supporter has lamented.
Under the so-called Conservative Party, the British public saw their tax burden rise at the second-highest rate among G7 nations in 2021.
George Osborne, David Cameron’s “Austerity Chancellor” and the anti-Brexit campaign’s “Scaremonger-General” in 2016, believes the next British election is “Labour’s to lose” as the Conservative government gives the appearance of having lost control of multiple crises.