Helen Miller

Helen Miller, director of the tax research programme at the IFS, has been awarded the prestigious Tax Personality of the Year award for 2018. The 2018 awards were on Thursday 17th May at the Hilton Park Lane where over 500 tax professionals celebrated the winners. Helen Miller receives the award...

This presentation was prepared for a joint IFS/CIOT debate on 5 March on the topic "Business tax reliefs - corporate welfare or essential elements of the tax system?"

The UK has over 1100 tax reliefs and according to HMRC, we forego over £400bn of revenue each year as a result of reliefs. In this observation, Helen Miller, Associate Director at IFS, sets out some of the issues.

The basic question of whether our tax system is fair is at the heart of many of our public debates. Discussions of whether ‘the rich’ or companies are paying their ‘fair share’ is regularly in, or underlying, the news headlines. These are important questions. If we want to ensure that we can raise the revenues to pay for the public goods and services that we all want, we need to be able to have sensible debates about how much tax we raise, who we raise it from and how we spend it.

Helen Miller gave a public talk on the topic of "Are the rich paying their fair share of tax?" at the University of Manchester on 24/10/17.

Presentation at "Different ways of working" Conference, London, 15 June 2017

The Labour party is due to publish its June 2017 election manifesto later today. Below you will find detail on recent IFS analysis, which may help to contextualise and assess some of their policies.

IFS Associate Director Helen Miller writes an analysis piece for the BBC.

An article written for The House Magazine.

Today, the Labour party will announce that they would not implement planned corporation tax cuts and would reverse most of the cuts introduced since 2010. This would be the first time the main rate of the modern corporation tax in the UK had been increased. The policy could raise around £19 billion in the near term, but substantially less in the medium to long run because companies would respond by investing less in the UK.

This briefing note provides background material for the 2017 General Election.

This presentation was given by Helen Miller at the CIOT/IFS debate, "How should different ways of working be taxed?", on 20 March 2017.