I have found a redeeming feature in the Mirrlees recommendations. They suggest the abolition of stamp duty on sales of domestic housing and the abolition
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The Mirrlees report assumes that savings equal deferred consumption. As such their whole approach to the tax of savings assumes that this is simply an
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The Mirrlees review has a number of assumptions on consumption taxes. The most important, it says, is that such taxes should only be charged on
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Amazingly, the opening presentation on the Mirrlees review this morning suggested that the fundamental cause of inequality in the UK is different opportunities for access
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I am at the launch of the Mirrlees review on the future of the UK tax system. Mirrlees’ fundamental assumption is that the tax system
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There are three events of major political significance to the public sector this week. The first is the issue of the Department of Work and
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The World Bank has published its latest “Doing Business” report — an annual fiasco that might easily be interpreted as a celebration of the neoliberal
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Geoff Cook of Jersey Finance wrote two comments on the blog yesterday, wanting to set the record straight on some things — such as the
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The Law Society has sent me an email saying: Increasing care home fees could mean elderly people have nothing to leave in their wills. This
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