Helen Miller

The IFS Green Budget looks at the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the Chancellor aims to secure a lasting recovery and deliver on the Government’s other objectives and priorities.

Dame Angela Eagle MP and leading experts in tax discussed whether the UK should make more use of taxes on wealth. Even if the overall tax take doesn’t rise, should more be raised from wealth for distributional reasons? And, if we are to tax wealth more, should this be achieved by reforming current taxes, such as those on property, capital gains and inheritances?

IFS immediate reaction to the Prime Minister's announcement about social care.

Taxes are often the subject of debate; that is as it should be. But those debates need to be well-informed to produce sensible policy outcomes.

Taxes are often the subject of debate; that is as it should be. But those debates need to be well-informed to produce sensible policy outcomes.

The tax system discourages employment, investment and risk-taking. It needs reform, say Stuart Adam and Helen Miller.

Presentation given by Helen Miller at the IFS Spring 2021 pre-Budget event on the need for a plan regarding the transition from support to recovery measures.

At this event we discussed findings from a new report, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, which sets out the problems with the current tax treatment of business owners’ incomes and investment and discusses how the government could take practical steps towards fixing them.