Chapter 41 of P. Alcock, T. Haux, M. May and S. Wright (eds.) (2016), The Student's Companion to Social Policy, 5th edition.
This chapter provides a brief overview of the UK tax system, key concepts and debates in taxation, and emerging issues.
Authors
Stuart Adam
Stuart is a Senior Economist working in the Tax sector, and focuses on analysing the design of the tax and benefit system.
Barra Roantree
Barra is a Research Fellow at IFS and Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin.
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