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.
Some suggestions for the new pensions minister
Pensions analyst Michael Johnson urges new pensions minister Ros Altmann to continue with the bold reforms that her predecessor began.
Unleashing the Sharing Economy
The Government should go further and faster to promote the Sharing Economy.
The Triple Challenge Facing Britain’s Oil and Gas Sector
Britain has the highest operating costs in the World for oil production. Radical reform is needed to stem the tide of rising costs, falling prices and heavy taxation.
Competition can Crush Crony Corporatism
Urgent policy reform is needed to reclaim popular capitalism from crony corporatists.
A Tax on Business is a Tax on Jobs
The level of business taxation is critical because it directly affects investment, employment and ultimately the prosperity of a nation.
Central Planning with Market Features: how renewable subsidies destroyed the UK electricity market
Rupert Darwall shows that recent energy policy represents the biggest expansion of state power since the nationalisations of the 1940s and 1950s – and is on course to be the most expensive domestic policy disaster in modern British history.
Britain is Taxed Enough Already
Higher taxes are not the solution to the challenges facing the UK economy.
Auto-protection at 55
Leading pensions expert Michael Johnson urges the Government to implement radical reform in order to avoid an impending crisis.
The Shrinking Case for a Mansion Tax
Any case for a Mansion Tax is now redundant as recent tax reforms have significantly increased the tax burden on higher value properties.
Welfare Dependency and the Size of the State
Under Labour’s plans 750,000 more households could be in welfare dependency by 2020.
Estimating the Employment Effects of Labour’s Corporation Tax Policy
If the Labour Party wins the General Election, it has pledged to increase the main rate of corporation tax. Our model estimates that, other things being equal, a rising corporation tax would lead to a reduction in total employment of 96,400 by 2018/19 compared to the OBR’s estimates of employment under the Government’s plans.
Deteriorating Energy Security: Why MPs Should Save Fracking
An amendment to the Infrastructure Bill introduced today would effectively ban fracking on environmental grounds. If this amendment is passed it would reduce energy security and would be a disgraceful failure duty by MPs who are supposed to defend Britain’s economic well-being.
What Price Localism? A Case Study of the LGPS
Without structural change, the Local Government Pension Scheme is in terminal decline.
Jam Tomorrow
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement speech today outlined a number of welcome changes as well as a lot of tinkering.
11 things the CPS wants to see in the Autumn Statement
The Chancellor should take the opportunity in his Autumn Statement speech on Wednesday to outline a series of proposals which are all cost neutral (at worst), which will boost underlying growth and which will continue to reform public services
