We’ve all heard Colbert’s famous one-liner about the art of taxation being that of plucking the goose to obtain the … Continue reading “The case against Colbertism”

Tax doesn’t have to be taxing, as those jolly HMRC adverts would have us believe. But given the length (10 … Continue reading “Debate: Which tax would you axe? (Part 1)”

In 2004 the Swedish inheritance tax and gift tax was abolished by a unanimous vote in the Riksdag. In a … Continue reading “How high-tax Sweden abolished its disastrous inheritance tax”

A classical conservative believes private property exists in a moral, not merely political sense.  We could truly own things even … Continue reading “Wealth taxes are not the way to go”

Whenever we approach a General Election or Budget, the competition for the daftest tax policy idea is always intense. The … Continue reading “Why Tory plans to reform Inheritance Tax will make a bad system even worse”

In the dark days of the 1970s, Labour MPs Jeff Rooker, then aged just 36, and Audrey Wise engineered an … Continue reading “For the sake of our children, stand firm on tax by stealth”

I do not agree with taxes on wealth as a matter of principle. In general, increases in wealth come from … Continue reading “The Cable-Montgomerie-Balls tax: bottom of the worst-buy list of tax policies”

The Conservatives have abandoned their manifesto commitment to raise the Inheritance Tax threshold as part of the coalition deal with the … Continue reading “The Conservatives should have stood firm on Inheritance Tax”

The Conservatives have abandoned their manifesto commitment to raise the Inheritance Tax threshold as part of the coalition deal with the … Continue reading “The Conservatives should have stood firm on Inheritance Tax”