The four main parties (on the basis of their likely share of the UK vote) have all now published their … Continue reading “A review of the election manifestos: fiscal policy and public spending”

Back in January the IEA published a blog post by Emmanuel Comte with the title “Why Brexit was a mistake, … Continue reading “The libertarian case for Brexit – restated”

The Telegraph has reported that the UK government is drawing up plans to encourage retailers to introduce price caps on basic food … Continue reading “Food price caps are likely to backfire – as price caps always do”

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”

Opposition to tariff-free access to UK markets for Australian farmers is protectionism, pure and simple. Minette Batters, president of the … Continue reading “Three cheers for free trade with Australia”

The Sunday Times has reported that UK officials are mulling two new taxes on digital businesses – an online sales … Continue reading “The pros and (mostly) cons of an online sales tax”

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”

How deep a hole are we in? The Institute of Economic Affairs has just published a primer I’ve written on … Continue reading “Why we don’t need tax rises to pay for Covid”

On 4 December, the UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a report on the production and distribution of cash. … Continue reading “Access to cash is a far bigger problem than the “missing” £50 billion”