Rishi Sunak is expected to end the UK’s decade long experiment with low corporation tax rates at the forthcoming Spring … Continue reading “Has the low corporation tax experiment worked?”

The Chancellor is reportedly planning to extend the stamp duty holiday to June. IEA Economics Fellow Julian Jessop welcomed the … Continue reading “It is time to look at ways to scrap stamp duty altogether”

Although the budget is intended to be an annual set piece, thinking in terms of a timeframe of a single … Continue reading “Sunak needs to look to the short-term and the long-term in next week’s budget”

Sir Keir Starmer delivered a key speech earlier this week outlining his plans for Britain if Labour were in power.  … Continue reading “Keir Starmer speech “an extenstion of state intervention in the economy””

Sir Keir Starmer has called for the establishment of a UK recovery bond to help raise money to invest in … Continue reading “Labour’s recovery bond is unnecessary”

Life under lockdown may be a profoundly, relentlessly monotonous existence but Conservative politicians floating a different tax increase each week … Continue reading “Wealth taxes – another failed idea that never dies”

Calls for the government to implement a wealth tax have grown in recent times with proponents arguing that a tax … Continue reading “Wealth tax will “encourage avoidance, evasion and capital flight””

The Institute of Fiscal Studies has urged the Chancellor Rishi Sunak not to increase taxes in the forthcoming Spring Budget. … Continue reading “Chancellor warned “the UK has reached its taxable limit””

We are not having a very good pandemic so far. With over 1,500 deaths per million people, Britain has one … Continue reading “No, “austerity” is not to blame for Britain’s poor Covid performance”