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This Green Budget 2018 presentation considers where the Chancellor might look if he wanted to increase tax receipts by about 1% of national income – enough to pay for the promised increase in NHS spending.
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Associate Director
Tom is an Associate Director at the IFS and Head of the Income, Work and Welfare sector.
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- 10.1920/ps.ifs.2024.0213
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- IFS
Suggested citation
Waters, T. (2018). 'Options for raising taxes' [Presentation]. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/options-raising-taxes-0 (accessed: 22 March 2025).
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