CapX » Taxation

There are a few things that are certain in life; trips to the loo, kicking the bucket and paying taxes. And in Britain, the last of those is particularly painful. By now we’ve all heard on a nu...

https://capx.co/weekly-briefing-beware-the-cliff-edge/

The Chancellor is under pressure from Conservative MPs to cut taxes at the upcoming Budget. With the cost of living hitting families and growth stagnant, reductions in personal and business taxes...

https://capx.co/we-need-a-green-budget-to-make-our-lives-cheaper/

‘Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come’. Clearly, Victor Hugo never envisioned the power of Treasury brain. Despite the manifold rea...

https://capx.co/the-death-of-the-death-tax-would-not-be-mourned/

If I received a call from my bank telling me that I was £10,000 overdrawn, then the next day they called me again to say that they had recalculated and in fact I was only £9000 overdrawn would ...

https://capx.co/tax-cuts-are-great-but-britain-is-still-overdrawn/

When is a poppadom a crisp? It’s the kind of question a philosophy undergraduate might fret over the night before a deadline. But under UK law, this bizarre quandary has recently taxed some of ...

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Around 50 Conservative MPs called for inheritance tax to be abolished after The Telegraph launched a campaign urging the government to scrap the tax in summer 2023. The move has since been discus...

https://capx.co/why-inheritance-tax-should-be-reformed/

Last week, CapX published an essay from Karl Williams throwing the fiscal challenges posed by Britain’s ageing population into sharp relief. To recap: the Office for Budget Responsibility forec...

https://capx.co/reshaping-the-state/

In the lead-up to this Wednesday’s Autumn Statement, much of the conversation amongst pro-growth voices in Westminster has focused on tax cuts. That’s no surprise when our current tax levels ...

https://capx.co/in-the-hunt-for-tax-cuts-the-chancellor-must-not-forget-regulatory-reform/

Jeremy Hunt is under pressure from Tory backbenchers to cut taxes in the Autumn Statement. It’s been reported that Hunt believes that higher than expected tax revenues gives him the headroom to...

https://capx.co/cutting-inheritance-tax-is-not-just-fiscally-unsound-its-unfair/

If there is one thing worse than a big, expansive, expensive state, it must surely be a big, expansive, expensive, and badly run state. Perhaps the two simply go hand-in-hand; certainly, the prop...

https://capx.co/schroedingers-state-britains-expensive-government-still-manages-to-be-far-too-cheap/