Mansion tax: Tim Knox quoted on The Times front page

Centre for Policy Studies Director Tim Knox was quoted on the front page of The Times on Thursday 25 September 2014, in a report on growing doubts over Ed Miliband’s mansion tax policy. 

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“Tim Knox , director of the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank, said: “The mansion tax plays very well with the Labour party and wider public sense of ‘them and us’, but it’s quite clear it’s not a real policy. A real policy has proper numbers, real methodology and a real impact assessment. This has none.”

He warned that the tax could be “incredibly damaging” to London and its place in the global economy. “It’s hard to think of something that raises such an insignificant amount which could cause such significant damage.”

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Date Added: Thursday 25th September 2014