TAXING OUR WAY OUT?

 A Parliamentary seminar

Joint conference with the Smith Institute

The seminar is part of a wider project examining the contribution, positive or negative, that tax policy can make to the emergence of the UK economy from the financial crisis. We will consider the scope and public appetite for radical measures and the limitations of taxation instruments as a method of dealing with the Budgetary deficit.  
 
Whatever else happens in the run up to the 2010 General Election, one thing is clear: differences in taxation policy between the major parties will be sharper and more evident than at any time in the recent past. There will be pressure to consider new taxation instruments and to shift the balance between direct and indirect, national and local taxation. Business and personal taxes will change whoever is elected, but how they change will have a major impact on how quickly the economy recovers from the financial crisis.   
   
The speakers at this event will be Rt. Hon. Stephen Timms MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury), David Gauke MP (Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury), Lord Newby (Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for the Treasury), and Professor Michael Devereux (Director, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation). The event will be chaired by Chris Wales.
 

Downloads:

Public Sector Finances and the Crisis: a VAT rise could help

Michael P Devereux, Clemens Fuest, and Giorgia Maffini

This paper from the Tax Journal was circulated at the conference