Business is the wealth generator of the UK, and small and family businesses are the often neglected heart of the UK economy, with family businesses alone employing nearly four in ten of the UK’s workforce. We propose ways to make the UK an economy all businesses can thrive in.
2012 Budget: 21 policies for growth and wealth creation
In the lead-up to the 2012 Budget, Ryan Bourne and Tim Knox set out the policies they’d adopt for wealth and job creation.
Pensions: Bring back the 10p rebate
In the lead-up to the 2012 Budget, leading pensions expert Michael Johnson examines the £30 billion spent on incentivising retirement savings.
Taxing Mansions: the taxation of high value residential property
The case for a “Mansion Tax” is far weaker than it appears at first sight finds Lucian Cook
A market-orientated solution to the problem with annuities
Michael Johnson suggests that the industry should establish a new annuities clearing house; a marketplace in which all annuity providers participate.
How to Cut Corporation Tax
The main rate of Corporation Tax should be cut to 20% in the next Budget to provide a boost to growth and international competitiveness writes David Martin
How to Cut Government Spending: Lessons from Canada
Brian Cowley and Tim Knox examine how Canada effectively cut government debt in the 1990s, discussing lessons for current UK policy challenges.
The Atomic Clock: How the Coalition is gambling with Britain’s energy policy
One third of all households in the UK will be in fuel poverty by 2030 unless the Coalition rapidly moves to encourage and enable building of new nuclear plants
Factsheet 6 UPDATE: the recent history of MPC inflation forecasts
An update to previous work, this Factsheet shows that the inflation forecasting performance of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee continues to deteriorate.
Abolish NICs: Towards a more honest, fairer and simpler system
David Martin shows how, in the near future, only 6% of benefits will be paid on a contributory basis – and thus the time has come to recognise that the contributory principle has faded away. He recommends that NICs should be merged with income tax.
Credit where it’s due
James Conway and Michael O’Connor examine the case for credit easing to SMEs and recommend a least distortinary intervention
Growth, Growth, Growth: New ideas for growth and prosperity in the 21st century
Six Conservative MPs put together components for a growth agenda, including reforms to tax, finance, wefare, infrastructure, trade and the European Union.
Escaping the Strait Jacket
The MP for for Esher and Walton, Dominic Raab, explains how employment legislation and regulation can be reformed to ease the costs on business and encourage job creation.
The Endgame for the Eurozone?
It is to be hoped – though it looks unlikely – that the measures that President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel have been seeking to organise will buy time to address the fundamental, underlying problem of the major decline in competitiveness of the Southern economies compared with Northern Europe, under a common currency. If the EU does not come up with a realistic, long-term solution, a chaotic breakup of the Euro in due course is inevitable.
Adrenalin Now
In a CPS Pointmaker, Ryan Bourne explains why George Osborne needs to cut taxes if the economy is to grow, and outlines how the Chancellor can afford it.
After the Age of Abundance
The Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee critiques the Government’s approach to growth
Guilty Men
The Chief Political Commentator of the Telegraph reviews the debate surround the UK’s proposed Euro entry.
