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CenTax at Party Conferences
The CenTax team attended the Labour and Conservative party conferences again this year, hosting four panels in total, alongside the Chartered Institute for Taxation (CIOT), the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).
NEWS RELEASE: Move abroad if you want to invest in the UK, economist tells Treasury Select Committee
Appearing at this morning’s Treasury Select Committee, Professor Arun Advani argued that the Foreign Income and Gains (FIG) regime encourages “wealthy people to come here but not to invest here.”
Workshop on Firm-Level Impacts of Labour Supply Shocks
In September, CenTax hosted a two-day academic workshop bringing together researchers from across the world to explore how firms respond to labour supply shocks.
Across a series of insightful presentations, participants shared empirical work on worker outcomes, firm performance and adjustment, and the broader economic implications of policy changes.
NEWS RELEASE: Scrapping the National Insurance tax break for partnerships would raise £1.9bn while improving productivity
Almost half the revenue raised from introducing Partnership NICs would be raised from partners in the top 0.1%. By providing the same allowances as available to employees, 66% of current partners would pay no additional tax. This analysis comes from a new report from the Centre for the Analysis of Taxation (CenTax) using HMRC tax data.
News Release: IHT reform largely protects family farms but could be better targeted, says independent report
A new report by researchers at the Centre for the Analysis of Taxation (CenTax) [1] provides the first independent, data-driven assessment of how the Government’s Inheritance Tax (IHT) reform [2] will affect farm estates.
Using detailed HMRC Inheritance Tax data, the report estimates that around 30% of farm estates [3] would be impacted by the reform, of which around 200 estates per year potentially comprise family farms valued at less than £5 million.
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee report published
The cross-party Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee has published the report of its inquiry into “The Government’s Vision for Farming,” to which CenTax Director Dr Arun Advani gave oral evidence on 11 December 2024.
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