Commenting on the latest ONS public sector finances figures, Julian Jessop, economics fellow at free market think tank the Institute … Continue reading “Higher borrowing still leaves room for tax cuts, says IEA expert”

Summary The issue of economic inequality has come to dominate the economic and political debate, with mounting numbers of books … Continue reading “An Introduction to Economic Inequality”

The public sector is in a mess. The latest round of tax hikes have taken levels to their highest in … Continue reading “The case for Zero-Based Budgeting in the public sector”

In the Spring Statement, around half the policy costs of measures issued related to the energy crisis. One of the … Continue reading “Should liberals welcome green VAT discounts as a tax cut, or bemoan them as a tax distortion?”

On the day that CPI inflation reached 6.2%, the government, via National Savings, is marketing Issue 2 of the Green … Continue reading ““Green Savings Bonds”: neither safe nor green”

The government is consulting on a proposal for an online sales tax. The rationale for this idea is that high … Continue reading “Online sales taxes: wrong in theory, an administrative nightmare in practice”

Sam Collins, IEA Senior Advisor to the Director General, has commented in the Daily Mail on calls for the wealthy … Continue reading “Scrap Capital Gains Tax instead of taxing the rich”

Len Shackleton, IEA Editorial and Research Fellow, has commented in the Times on proposals to introduce an online tax to … Continue reading “An online tax would further convolute our tax system”

Julian Jessop, IEA Economics Fellow, has written for the Daily Mail on the measures the government should take to reduce … Continue reading “Help the most vulnerable by reducing their tax burden”