
Barney Campbell: The case for a new national service scheme – driven by incentives, not compulsion
Doing more to incentivise recruitment is not only good for the Armed Forces, but benefits the rest of society too.
Doing more to incentivise recruitment is not only good for the Armed Forces, but benefits the rest of society too.
Plus: Johnson’s sub-optimal Brexit trade deal choice. I’m not dreaming of a normal Christmas. And: green jobs – overall, a cost not a benefit.
He must ensure that taxation supports viability before he can start to focus on balancing the books.
The Treasury should hold one as the year rolls on, along the lines of that undertaken by Canada’s government during the 1990s.
A major part of the problem is high tax rates driven by borrowing for higher education courses that they’d be better off not taking.
We should have a laser-like focus on reducing the tax burden, instead of relying on nannying to get us off of our bottoms.
Given the Coronavirus uncertainties, whatever he announces could be even more provisional than most schemes of most Chancellors.
It’s a good thing for former senior Ministers to keep thinking, going and contributing, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see a comeback to government.
At the Centre for Policy Studies, we’ve teamed up with Sajid Javid to come up with a comprehensive set of ideas for tackling the challenges ahead.
Investors should create new homes – in an economies-of-scale dozen at a time, and lease a whole care package to local authorities.
The Government has to generate revenue quickly, but austerity and spending cuts are not viable options.
The tax benefits of being self-employed should reflect genuine value added relative to normal employment.
The author of the final piece in our mini-series identifies corporation tax, stamp duty, national insurance and investment allowances as targets for action.
Ministers have been asked to push the Government’s priorities – tackling crime, funding the NHS, “levelling up”. How can these be effected without faster growth?
That’s a legitimate political agenda, and people are quite welcome to vote for it. But they deserve to know what’s coming.