Tackling the national debt, encouraging wealth creation, cracking down on welfare, deregulating the city and wider economy, backing business and bringing down spending. Despite concerns that Reform UK were tacking to the Left on the economy, pro-growth, free market, Thatcherite instincts were in abundance throughout Nigel Farage’s speech today. In almost the final line of […]
The UK’s tax system is too complicated. It’s a point made many times before, yet ahead of the Autumn Statement, it is worth repeating. If there’s one great failure of the Conservative governments of the past 13 years, it’s this – the missed opportunity to establish a lower, simpler, more efficient tax code. This week, […]
Our tax system is in such a mess that it’s difficult to know where to start. From inheritance tax to stamp duty, our system of revenue raising distorts, discourages and depresses investment, growth and household budgets. As the Centre for Policy Studies has highlighted, we’ve now slipped three places to 30th in the International Tax Competitiveness […]
It’s election time. We’ve had a referendum on leaving the EU, but no majority in parliament to make it happen. The Tories are led by a popular leader, adored by the party’s grassroots, who has committed to delivering Brexit come hell or high water. Labour are behind, with Corbyn written off, and a Marxist policy […]
So now we know for sure. Thanks to Grant Shapps, Westminster’s biggest open secret is finally out there. HS2 is actually going to cost considerably more than we were told four years ago. For us at the TaxPayers’ Alliance, this is a bittersweet moment. It’s bitter because the bill for HS2 will now be even […]
