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Posts Tagged: Institute for Fiscal Studies

Sunak’s measures: What do they look like, where’s the money coming from – and how do they compare to other countries’?

While the Chancellor’s recovery measures look drastic, they are “middle of the pack” when compared to others in the world.

By Charlotte Gill | 9 July 2020 | 71 comments

Robert Halfon: There must be no tax rises for lower income voters to help meet the costs of the virus

No fuel duty rises, self-employed taxes, income tax rises, more taxes on food and drink – and the like.

By Robert Halfon MP | 3 June 2020 | 82 comments

Neil O’Brien: Higher and technical eduation. The universities should reform themselves. Or have reform forced on them.

For a country deep in debt, lofty thoughts are not enough to justify such huge numbers of students doing things that don’t help them economically,

By Neil O Brien MP | 1 June 2020 | 55 comments

Luke Evans: The shutdown and economic crisis. The longer the first goes on, the more likely the second becomes.

There is an unsolvable and immeasurable balance between lives and livelihoods. So we are going to need consensus across the House.

By Dr Luke Evans MP | 27 May 2020 | 39 comments

David Goodhart: The virus. It’s almost certain that ethnic minorities are at greater risk. But we can’t yet know the full explanation.

There are three main factors at work – genetics, plus cultural and social factors. And it’s not possible at present to disentangle the mix.

By David Goodhart | 22 May 2020 | 24 comments

This really is the time to let the deficit grow big enough to look after itself

If, that is, interest rates carry on at rock bottom rates. But we have to take a chance on growing our way out of this crisis.

By Paul Goodman | 15 May 2020 | 110 comments

Phil Taylor: Labour’s Austerity 1) How Brown’s Government planned £94 billion of cuts

As the tenth anniversary of the 2010 election approaches, the author says that Labour’s own austerity record and plans were almost as tough as the Coalition’s.

By Phil Taylor | 5 May 2020 | 38 comments

James Heywood: The virus has exposed the urgent need to reform how we treat the self-employed

The tax benefits of being self-employed should reflect genuine value added relative to normal employment.

By James Heywood | 27 March 2020 | 14 comments

Budget 1) This was less a Conservative Budget than “the People’s Budget”. From a Vote Leave Government – not the usual Tory one.

It may be necessary, given the Coronavirus, and could even work. But Britain has a long, long record of state spending failing to turbo-charge growth.

By Paul Goodman | 12 March 2020 | 150 comments

Neil O’Brien: The balance of power between economic and social conservatives may be shifting to the latter

We lost Putney, but gained loads of poorer seats in the north and midlands. That’s highlighted the tensions.

By Neil O Brien MP | 9 March 2020 | 70 comments

Tom Clougherty: Unless Labour resorts to printing money, higher income tax, NI or VAT are coming – for the many, not the few

That’s a legitimate political agenda, and people are quite welcome to vote for it. But they deserve to know what’s coming.

By Tom Clougherty | 11 December 2019 | 13 comments

An idea for McDonnell. Pledge £1 million to every voter in Britain.

Let him carry on what he’s started by exploding the financial framework Labour announced in only two days.

By Paul Goodman | 25 November 2019 | 69 comments

The ConservativeHome columnists and the Conservative Party manifesto

We unleashed Nick Timothy on the world as a columnist. Meet the husband-and-wife combo of Rachel Wolf and James Frayne.

By Paul Goodman | 25 November 2019 | 62 comments

Mark Harper: If the Conservative Party is not the party of sound money, then what on earth are we for?

Between them, the two remaining candidates have already clocked up tax and spending promises of around £51 billion per year.

By Mark Harper MP | 8 July 2019 | 61 comments

Sam Gyimah: My challenge to Johnson and Hunt. It’s time to commit to scrapping Britain’s five worst taxes.

The former Universities Minister revives his tax-cutting plan from the earlier stages of this leadership contest.

By Sam Gyimah MP | 21 June 2019 | 54 comments

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