News & Insight

11 April 2016

Tax avoidance is higher on the global political agenda than it ever has been before, largely as a result of civil society’s hard work. However, we have a long way to go to include developing countries, increase transparency and tackle...

11 April 2016

Inequalities in wealth are far greater than inequalities in income on which most tax policy discussion has focused. However, different kinds of wealth require different kinds of taxation, and there are a range of potential policy options we can consider,...

5 April 2016

According to a major group of employers, the introduction of the 'national living wage' on Friday created a ‘burning platform’ for businesses. Invoking the language of the organisational change guru Darryl Conner, the claim implies businesses are facing a choice...

4 April 2016

So the House of Lords did the job that the Commons could not. Without our undemocratic, unelected friends in ermine, the Conservatives would have succeeded in their stated aim to rip up the statutory commitment to end child poverty within...

1 April 2016

Kezia Dugdale is under no illusions about the scale of her task in leading Labour’s revival in Scotland. With tricky elections and an EU referendum to navigate, she talks to Mary Riddell about what it’s like to have the toughest job in politics.