Paul Johnson and Stuart Adam provide the view from the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the need for a coherent government strategy for the tax system as a whole.
Chris Sanger weighs up the practical issues facing some of the IFS Green Budget’s prescriptions for growth-enhancing tax reform.
‘Public borrowing is falling faster than expected and is on track to beat official forecasts for this financial year, official figures for the crucial month of January showed on Tuesday, giving George Osborne a fillip a month before the Budget.
‘Barclays has been warned that its reputation is being "tarnished" by the persistent use of "complicated financial structures" to boost profits.
Government debt has doubled in a few years to more than £1 trillion. David Smith considers how worried we should be.
Caroline Turnbull-Hall and Richard Thomas of the Office of Tax Simplification consider whether the tax code is really as long as everyone thinks it is.
The UK’s tax legislation runs to fewer than 5,500 pages and almost half of it has been rewritten in a ‘more logical and readable’ style, according to research conducted on behalf of the Office of Tax Simplification.