The G7 agreement on new principles for taxing multinationals is not the ‘breakthrough’ that many are claiming. It probably will … Continue reading “G7 deal on multinational tax fails to live up to the hype”

There is still plenty of speculation that the Treasury is thinking of raising UK corporation tax in the March Budget. … Continue reading “Hiking corporation tax: bad idea, worse timing”

Conditions for growth are not a mystery – we have seen them in the UK in the recent past. This … Continue reading “The Chancellor’s Post-Pandemic Choices”

Continued from Part 1… Abolish corporation tax, says the IEA’s Chief Economist Julian Jessop Corporate taxation is no longer fit … Continue reading “Debate: Which tax would you axe? (Part 2)”

The new mantra of the people is “tax more, spend more”, at least according to the British Social Attitudes 2017 … Continue reading “People have forgotten the perils of Big Government”

Clearly no-one commenting on the EU Commission’s levying of €13 billion of taxes on Apple has read my 2005 IEA … Continue reading “Apple and Ireland: nothing surprising in the EU imposing taxes”

“Corporations do not pay taxes.” This statement may be uncontroversial among large swathes of the population, but to free-marketeers – … Continue reading “It is true that “corporations don’t pay tax” – but it is not true in the way everybody thinks”

The lack of meaningful reform of business taxation is one of the great failures of recent governments. But with public … Continue reading “Let’s abolish corporation tax”

Mariana Mazzucato is a well-known Professor of the Economics of Innovation at the University of Sussex. She advises the Labour … Continue reading “There are few things in positive economics that are settled – except that there are few things that are settled”