News & Insight

9 January 2015

Government has two options in increasing tax revenues. It can hike up tax rates or it can avoid this unpopular and unsustainable option by ensuring there are a higher number of taxpayers. The government’s current policy of creating more low-paid,...

9 January 2015

For years now Andy Burnham has rightly criticised the fragmentation caused by the commercialisation of the NHS. But today’s decision by Circle Healthcare reveals a different side to the risks thrown up by privatisation of public services: short-termism. Indeed Circle’s decision...

8 January 2015

Tax has always been the ground on which elections are won and lost, and the battle in the run up to next May looks no different. David Cameron wheeled out £7.2bn of income tax cuts at conference, which will undoubtedly...

7 January 2015

One of the best things Einstein ever said was about the complexity of filing a tax return: “this is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher”. He meant that the act of filing a return raises the implicit...

6 January 2015

I voted in my first general election back in 1992. Yet, in all my active democratic life, a mainstream party has never stood up and presented tax as a good thing. Neil Kinnock, whose famous tax hikes supposedly lost him...