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Plaid Cymru’s manifesto emphasises increased tax devolution for Wales, reforms to Wales's funding settlement and equalising capital gains tax rates with income tax rates.

This week saw most of the parties publish their manifestos. The Conservatives propose £17 billion in tax cuts paid for by reducing welfare benefits and the tax gap. Labour aims to generate £8.6 billion extra for public services from, among others, non-doms, private schools and oil and gas companies.

The Labour Party have published their general election manifesto proposing £8.6 billion in narrowly targeted tax increases but committing not to raise VAT, income tax, National Insurance or corporation tax rates.

The Conservatives and Labour both say they would scrap the current ‘non-dom’ tax rules, though Labour say the Conservatives’ plans have ‘loopholes’ in them that they would close. What does this mean? What are non-doms? And what are the pros and cons of what the parties propose?

The Green Party of England and Wales today launched their general election manifesto, proposing an annual wealth tax, higher capital gains tax and raising the National Insurance rate to 8% on annual earnings above £50,270.

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will “inevitably” have an impact on the world of tax, but human users will still be needed to oversee the technology, said speakers at the annual Chartered Tax Advisers’ Address.

The Conservatives have launched their general election manifesto promising £17 billion a year of tax cuts by the end of the next Parliament paid for by cuts in welfare benefits and reducing the tax gap.

The Liberal Democrats have published their general election manifesto, proposing to raise nearly £27 billion extra in tax revenue by the final year of the Parliament, from measures including a crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion, reforms to capital gains tax and raising more from large businesses in a number of sectors, particularly banking.

The Conservatives are proposing a further cut to employees' National Insurance and have an ambition to scrap it altogether. They've also announced a proposal to scrap the main National Insurance rate for the self-employed. But what is National Insurance? How does it differ from income tax? And what effect would scrapping it have?

This week the first general election debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer took place, with taxes a central topic. The Conservatives have made new commitments on property taxes and the child benefit charge.