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This conference, sponsored by CIOT, looked at the taxation of top incomes and asked how the system could be made more rational and effective.
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Every two years, IFS holds a residential conference, aiming to facilitate high-level knowledge exchange between practitioners, policymakers and academics on key areas of policy and practice. 2023's conference, sponsored by CIOT and supported by Tax Journal, looked at the taxation of top incomes – broadly the top 1%, from those earning £130,000 a year to those making millions. The aim was to look beyond the political debate over how much to tax high incomes overall, and ask what challenges the current system faces and how it could made more rational and effective.
It addressed questions such as: What do we know about the composition of the top 1% and the tax they pay? How do they respond to taxation? Can the tax system promote entrepreneurship and venture capital in a way that is both effective and seen as fair?
How should different forms of employee remuneration be taxed? Could the tax system deal better with internationally mobile individuals? What can we learn from other countries?
Authors
![Stuart Adam](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/Stuart_Adam.jpg?itok=WhMGYiwy)
Senior Economist
Stuart is a Senior Economist working in the Tax sector, and focuses on analysing the design of the tax and benefit system.
![Arun Advani](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-05/Arun_Advani.jpg?itok=i5KiRxAs)
Research Fellow University of Warwick
Arun is a Research Fellow at IFS, an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and a Commissioner at the Wealth Tax Commission.
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Pump Court Chambers, STEP, CIOT
![Carl Emmerson](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/Carl_Emmerson.jpg?itok=6jM06LTY)
Deputy Director
Carl, a Deputy Director, is an editor of the IFS Green Budget, is expert on the UK pension system and sits on the Social Security Advisory Committee.
![Helen Miller](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-07/Helen-Miller.jpg?itok=nATifWPA)
![Andy Summers](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-05/Andy_Summers.jpg?itok=lsc2tNM6)
Research Fellow London School of Economics
Andy Summers is an Associate Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and an Associate of the International Inequalities Institute at LSE.
Presentation details
- DOI
- 10.1920/ps.ifs.2023.0005
- Publisher
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
Suggested citation
Adam, S et al. (2023). 'IFS residential conference 2023' [Presentation]. Oxford: Institute for Fiscal Studies. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/ifs-residential-conference-2023 (accessed: 30 June 2024).
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