It quashes the housing market, reduces labour mobility and inescapably reduces the number of transactions. This is not contested: the Treasury accepts the point in its modelling.
In one of the most remarkable statements from a Chancellor in living memory, Kwarteng pledged to reduce the top rate of income tax – amongst many other measures.
As England moves from Plan B to Plan A, here are some of the advantages and disadvantages of the Government’s now-to-be-phased-out Covid guidance.
Whole blocks of flats in London are sold off-plan to international investors, doing nothing to help Generation Rent.
It is only by embracing freedom and economic liberalism that we will make a real difference to those left behind.
There are dozens of policies, tax changes and other levers that government can pull to climate proof our homes.
The flaws in the current system can no longer be ignored. An Annual Proportional Property Tax would balance the scales.
Ministers cannot simply continue to perpetuate a broken system because of the painfully obvious but so often unspoken political risk implicit in reforming the market.
It will probe whether or or not Sunak can prepare the country for that future – and perhaps succeed Johnson himself, “one fine day”.
One of an occasional series of articles that ConservativeHome is publishing in advance of the Budget.
We need to focus on policies which will stimulate growth, benefit the many, and not breach the basic principles of fair taxation.
One of an occasional series of articles that ConservativeHome is publishing in advance of the Budget.
WPI Economics, which has been crunching numbers for the first, has also taken an interest in the second.
My objective would be policies to help achieve growth in real Government revenue, and growth in labour productivity.
The first of a series of five articles on ConservativeHome this week about the main challenges that await the new Prime Minister.