The Mirrlees report claims — it was trumpeted from the platform at yesterday’s launch — that it was ‘neutral’. It did not seek to raise
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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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I noted a report today that said: The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has announced the recruitment of four private sector tax experts to help
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George Osborne has succeeded in introducing a 100% (or more) tax rate in the UK tax system. For a parent of two children tipping over
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This article is on the Guardian site this morning. It’s written by Mario Pezzini is the director of the OECD development centre in Paris. He
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