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Andrew W Dilnot, Michael Kell and Steven Webb
Michael P Devereux and Nick Morris
Michael P Devereux and Nick Morris
Nick Morris
After the 1979 budget, in which the Chancellor reduced income tax but increased VAT to 15 per cent, we presented (Kay and Morris (1979)) a simple framework to describe the UK tax system.
Nick Morris
In the earlier article (Kay and Morris, 1979), we examined the effects of the 1979 budget on distribution and incentives by looking at the tax system as a whole in terms of a 'tax credit' and a marginal tax rate.
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