Recent British Governments of both Left and Right have been agreed that merger policy is in need of review.
26 July 1981
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.
26 July 1981
In the budget of 1980 the current administration launched the Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS), a four year plan designed primarily to reduce inflation but also to generate economic growth, see FSBR (1980).
26 July 1981
The discussion of British industry tends (understandably) to be dominated by the disappointing record of the past twenty years.
26 March 1981
This paper examines in some detail the question of whether married couples should be taxed individually or jointly.
26 March 1981
Much interest has recently been expressed in the scope and growth of the black economy, and several estimates of its size have been presented, which invariably receive wide coverage in the press and elsewhere
26 March 1981
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has earned for itself a high reputation for intellectual excellence, a quality which I am sure will be much in evidence during this symposium.
26 November 1980
There are two reasons for concern about the effect fo the tax and benefit system on incentives for low paid workers.
26 November 1980
Cash Limits were introduced for the financial year 1976-77 by the Treasury as the dominant basis of control over a wide range of expenditures by central departments; health, local and water authorities; and public corporations.
26 November 1980
In a separate article (Forsyth and Kay, Fiscal Studies, No.3), we have described the gains to the British economy from the exploitation of North Sea oil reserves.
26 November 1980
In the course of his discussion of benefit indexation during the 1980 Budget speech, the Chancellor of the Exchequer remarked that:
26 November 1980
This paper argues that the UK financial year (FY) should be moved from April-April to coincide with the calendar year (CY).
27 July 1980
The growth of North Sea oil revenues is the most important fiscal development in the British economy in teh 1980s.
27 July 1980
A distinctive freature of the British tax system is the very wide range of incomes which is subject to tax at the basic rate.
27 July 1980
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.
27 July 1980
The direct tax structure of the UK has grown by continuous accretion since its principal elements were set out by Addington in 1803.
27 July 1980
The wage determination process in Australia operates substantially under the guidelines set down by the Australian Arbitration and Conciliation Commission.
27 July 1980
It has always been difficult to justify the existence of a separate tax on corporations in a fiscal system based ultimately on individual ability to pay and many, indeed, have argued that the corporation tax should, in principle, be abrogated.
27 July 1980
While much recent attention has been paid to the problems involved in estimating the degree of welath inequality in Britain, and policies to reduce it have been the subject of widespread discussion, there is a relative paucity of knowledge about the reasons for its existence and persistence.
27 July 1980
The title I have chosen for tonight covers an important group of questions, which have been much in the forefront of discussion in recent years.
27 March 1980