Resources

Overall tax policy

Why Choose Britain
CPS - 2022
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A Framework for the Future: Reforming the UK Tax System
CPS and Tax Foundation - 2020
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The economic consequences of Mr. Sunak
Politeia - 2022
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Tax freedom day
ASI - 2022
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Sustained tax burden at highest level since 1951
TPA - 2021
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Britain’s taxable capacity: Has it reached the upper limit?
Politeia - 2020
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Calculating the number of tax changes since 2010
TPA - 2021
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Tax policies for post-Brexit growth in the UK
Capital Economics - 2020
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Post - war tax burdens by Prime Minister
TPA - 2019
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The tax burden following the October 2021 budget
TPA - 2021
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Taxation, government spending & economic growth
IEA - 2016
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Optimal taxation in theory and practice
NBER – 2021
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Britain is taxed enough already
CPS - 2015
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Supply Side Economics – An Analytical Review
Lucas - 1990
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Taxation and Economic Growth
OECD - 2008
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The effect of taxes on efficiency & growth
NBER - 2006
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Why Tax Cuts are Good for Growth
CIS - 2006
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Fiscal principles for the future
PE - 2020
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The Case for Supply Side Economics
Cato - 1980
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Marginal Tax Rates and Income: New Time Series Evidence
NBER – 2013
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The Effect of State Taxes on the Geographical Location of Top Earners: Evidence from Star Scientists
NBER - 2015
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The simple economics of pro-growth tax reform
Heritage – 2013
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The Dos and Don’ts of Tax Reform
Heritage – 2013
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True Tax Reform: Improves the Economy, Does Not Raise Taxes
Heritage – 2011
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The macroeconomic effects of tax changes: estimates based on a new measure of fiscal shocks
NBER - 2007
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Tax rates and tax evasion
NBER - 2001
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Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: Evidence from "Missing Imports" in China
NBER - 2001
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The Dynamics of Tax Cuts
Manhattan - 1988
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The Hidden Costs of Tax Compliance
Mercatus - 2013
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The Challenge of Transparency in Taxation
Mercatus – 2015
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Personal income taxes

The single income tax: Final report of the 2020 Tax Commission
TPA - 2020
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Tax matters: reforming the tax system
Tax Reform Commission - 2006
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Make work pay – a new agenda for fairer taxes
CPS - 2018
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Lifetime tax
TPA - 2022
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One big hit – fixing national insurance for good
TPA – 2020
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The Exchequer Effect of the 50% Additional Rate of Income Tax
HMRC - 2012
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A flat tax for the UK: A practical reality
ASI - 2005
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Flat tax – The British case
ASI - 2004
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Restricting pensions tax relief
TPA - 2018
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Tax Revenue Resulting in a Loss
Timbro – 2015
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Abolish NICs
CPS – 2010
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High Taxes and High Budget Deficits: The Hoover–Roosevelt Tax Increases of the 1930s
Cato - 2003
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Tax Rates and Tax Revenue: The Mellon Income Tax Cuts of the 1920s
Cato - 2003
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The Effects of Marginal Tax Rates on Interstate Migration in the U.S.
New Jersey Department of the Treasury - 2011
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Tax and theology
Journal of Markets & Morality - 2006
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Tax avoidance and the deadweight loss of the income tax
NBER – 1995
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Exposing the stealth tax: the bracket creep rip-off
CIS -2015
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The Very Idea of a Flat Tax
CIS – 2004
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Business taxes

UK set for highest effective corporate tax in the G7
TPA - 2021
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How the global tax cartel could cost Britain billions
ASI - 2021
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Marginal Effective Tax Rates and the 2021 UK Budget
AEI - 2021
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Abolishing the factory tax
ASI - 2020
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A new simple, revenue-neutral tax code for business
CPS - 2016
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Complexity, uncertainty and cost: The impact of new rules to restrict tax relief on interest costs on real estate investment
CPS - 2016
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A tax on business is a tax on jobs
CPS - 2015
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The Influence of Corporate Income Taxes on Investment Location
Cato - 2021
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Corporate taxes and retail prices
NBER – 2020
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Corporate taxation and the distribution of income
NBER - 2020
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Capital markets – the importance of lower taxes
Cato - 1999
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The Impact of Corporate Taxes on Firm Innovation: Evidence from the Corporate Tax Collection Reform in China
NBER – 2018
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Taxation and innovation in the 20th Century
NBER - 2018
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The High Price That American Workers Pay for Corporate Taxes
Heritage - 2017
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Effect of corporate taxes on investment and entrepreneurship
NBER - 2008
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Eliminating the double taxation of corporate income
Heritage - 2017
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Who benefits from State corporate tax cuts
NBER – 2014
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Theft and taxes
NBER - 2004
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Should unfairness be maintained in corporate taxation?
Timbro - 2019
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Boosting Growth as the UK leaves the EU
CPS – 2020
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Capital taxes

The Capital Gains Tax and Inflation
MEI - 2022
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Ten years without the Swedish inheritance tax
Swedish Enterprise - 2015
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How to cut inheritance tax
CPS - 2015
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The case against CGT
CPS – 2012
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The cost of death
TPA - 2019
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Tracking Capital Gains
CD Howe – 2021
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Inheritance tax – an equitable tax no longer: time for abolition?
Legal Studies - 2007
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Repealing the Federal Estate Tax
Cato - 2006
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Euthanasia for death duties
IEA - 2002
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Grave Robbers: The Moral Case against the Death Tax
Cato – 1999
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State Death Tax Is a Killer
Heritage – 2015
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The Economic and Fiscal Effects of Eliminating the Federal Death Tax
Heritage – 2014
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Free wills – inheritance without taxation
ASI - 1995
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The Effect of Capital Gains Tax Rises on Revenues  
ASI - 2010
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Advantages of low capital gains tax rates
Cato - 2012
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The Economic Costs of Capital Gains Taxes
Fraser Institute - 2007
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The economic effects of capital gains taxation
Joint Economic Committee US Congress - 1997
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Captive Capital: How lower gains taxes unlock wealth
ASI - 1995
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Capital punishment
ASI – 1998
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A capital offence
ASI - 1988
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Wealth Taxation: An Overview of the Issues
Aspen – 2019
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Behavioural responses to wealth taxes
CESIFO - 2019
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Revisiting the proposals for a wealth tax
Mercatus – 2020
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Consumption, excise, transaction and other taxes

The case for freezing excise duties
CPS - 2021
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Aggressively regressive: The ‘sin taxes’ that make the poor poorer
IEA - 2013
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Assessing an online sales tax
TPA - 2020
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The tax on Christmas
TPA - 2021
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The tax on summer holidays
TPA - 2017
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Beyond the call of duty – Why we should abolish the Stamp Duty Land Tax
ASI - 2017
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Analysis of raising the stamp duty threshold
TPA - 2020
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Britain’s council tax burdens
TPA - 2021
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A rational approach to alcohol taxation
IEA - 2017
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A Taxing Approach to Choice
IPA – 2014
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Stamp duty – a counter-productive tax
TPA - 2013
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Taxing sin
Mercatus - 2009
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Soaking the poor
IPA – 1996
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Progressive consumption taxation
AEI - 2012
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International tax issues and comparisons

The UK’s International Tax Competitiveness
CPS - 2021
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Corporate Tax Rates around the World
Tax Foundation - 2021
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International tax competition
Cato - 2021
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All at sea
IEA - 2019
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The benefits of tax competition
IEA - 2005
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Unintended consequences of eliminating tax havens
Cato - 2018
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Tax competition: How tax havens help the poor
ASI - 2009
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Taxes Around the World: A Brief History of World Tax Policy, 1981-2007
AEI – 2011
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Tax competition – Much Ado About Very Little
CIS - 2007
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