Tax wrangles will go to the wire

The government is divided over how to reform Britain's tax system. Are we unfairly taxing work and endeavour when we ought to be raising more money on property? Emily Hohler reports.

Budget negotiations are "entering their final phase", and the main disagreements are not between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, but within the Tory party itself, says Rachel Sylvester in The Times.

Discussion centres around whether extra taxes should be levied on income or wealth, dividing the party into two camps: The Economist magazine Tories, who see property as an asset (George Osborne), and the Country Life Conservatives who feel "an Englishman's home is his castle" (David Cameron).

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.