CIOT/IFS debate: Reforming the taxation of housing – what changes should the Chancellor choose?

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A proportional property tax? Applying national insurance to landlords’ rental income? Putting capital gains tax on the sale of expensive main homes? Treasury officials are said to be looking at a range of changes to housing taxation ahead of the Budget. Meanwhile the Conservatives want to scrap stamp duty land tax entirely on main homes.

Which of these proposals make sense and what might a coherent vision for housing taxation look like? Do we tax housing too much, too little or just in the wrong way? Should we be taxing housing anyway, or just the value of the land it is built on?

Our panel brings together experts with a range of perspectives to consider these important questions.

Our panel

• Stuart Adam, Senior Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Caroline Fleet, Head of Real Estate for Crowe UK and Vice Chair of CIOT’s Property Taxes Committee
• Professor John Muellbauer, Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College and a Senior Fellow of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School
• Heather Stewart, Economics Editor at the Guardian
• Chair: Nichola Ross Martin, President, Chartered Institute of Taxation