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Tax Policy

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A pathetic array of muddled and utterly unprincipled tax policies

19th February 2024 Emile Woolf 0

The chief role of government is to enact laws that  protect the lives and civil freedoms of its citizens. Any “add-ons” warrant the most careful scrutiny before being admitted to the nation’s laws. However, even [more…]

Conservatives

The Missing Factor in Britain’s Economic Recovery Plan

7th November 2022 Patrick Barron 0

Despite much anticipation the economic recovery plan proposed by Britain’s Tory Party after the departure of former prime minister, Boris Johnson, is missing one key ingredient that will ensure its failure–spending cuts. The new “temporary [more…]

Conservatives

Growth must be backed by knowledge – not just words

31st October 2022 Emile Woolf 0

In raking over the embers of Truss/Kwarteng aspirational economics a few observations are still pertinent. The fiscal “event” they staged was, its critics opined, “stillborn”, dead at birth – with no hope of getting it [more…]

Economics

Designing Tax Policy – it should be obvious!

24th May 2021 Emile Woolf 0

A well-designed tax policy would extract from citizens’ wealth what’s needed by the government to protect their lives and civil liberties. It would not be designed to achieve purely political objectives, no matter how dressed [more…]

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