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Taxes, like death, are unavoidable. But we can design our taxes. We are not bound to have a tax system as inefficient, complex, and unfair as our current one. To improve things, we need to see the system as a whole, we need to design the system with a clear understanding of the population and economy on which it operates, and we need to apply economic insights and evidence to the design. We also need a much more informed public debate and a much better set of political processes than the ones we currently have.
This publication is related to the observation Making tax policy
Authors
![Paul Johnson](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-11/Paul%20J%202022%20Official%20portrait_0.jpg?itok=JAN23N1X)
Director
Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.
Report details
- DOI
- 10.1920/BN.IFS.2013.00137
- ISBN
- 978-1-909463-03-5
- Publisher
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
Suggested citation
Johnson, P. (2013). Better Budgets: making tax policy work. Institute for Fiscal Studies: Institute for Fiscal Studies. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/better-budgets-making-tax-policy-work (accessed: 30 June 2024).
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