Sweden’s little known tax cut could revive Britain’s flagging economy
In 1971, Roland Huntford, the Stockholm correspondent of The Observer, published a scathing critique of the “soft totalitarianism” exhibited by...
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‘Liz Truss’s tax cuts would have worked wonderfully for Britain’
The UK tipped into a technical recession at the end of last year and, while early data suggests the downturn...
Debt annihilation is approaching – and neither party is minded to stop it
We’ll match or even better the Tories on fiscal discipline, Labour’s high command repeatedly pledges, which is easy enough to...
Big State Toryism leaves no room for tax cuts
Governments like to act as if high spending is something they’ve inherited, something that’s happened to them, rather than a...
Britain’s money is running out. Keir Starmer will have one year to fix it
Assume that the opinion polls are right. Suppose that, at some point in 2024, Sir Keir Starmer wins a three-figure...
The tax allowance that could supercharge Britain’s economy – if it’s made permanent
Whacking up corporation tax for larger companies from 19pc to 25pc doesn’t obviously help in this regard. Even at 25pc,...
Jeremy Hunt is wrong – tax cuts are more than possible
Total government spending was only 39.5pc of GDP that year. It was perhaps understandable that it spiked up to 53pc in the Covid-affected year. But what is much less excusable is that spending did not return anywhere near its pre-Covid level after the pandemic ended, is scheduled to be over 46pc of GDP this year, and even at the outer horizon of government spending forecasts (if one believes them) is scheduled to be well over 43pc still, in 2027-28.Hunt and Sunak pitch themselves as the grown-up, responsible folk, focused on fiscal...
No small potatoes: Idaho’s economic success is a model for the US
Idaho's success is nothing short of extraordinary. It's also no accident. For years, Idaho has embraced conservative governing principles to...
‘Go back to work and we can cut income tax by 2p’
His comments indicate appetite around the Cabinet table to lower the tax burden when economic conditions and the Treasury’s finances...
Has the UK economy become an ’emerging market’?
From the Brexit vote to the mini-budget in September 2022, economic policy in the UK has been uncertain, a feature...
