Taxes on wealth and spending

How will a temporary cut to VAT on household electricity bills affect households, the tax system and the public finances?

Who would be most affected by the government’s planned reform to the NICs treatment of salary sacrifice pensions and would it improve the tax system?

A manifesto with a vision for a bigger state but no detail on how to pay for it.

Scotland has made its tax and benefit system more progressive than the rest of the UK’s, but unnecessarily complex and distortionary.

We unpack the Budget’s quieter tax changes, from EV policy to savings and investment reforms, and explore what these small shifts really mean.

The new tax on properties worth £2 million or more in 2026, levied on homeowners from April 2028, will affect London and the South East the most.
 

How the UK’s complex VAT system could be simplified to raise revenue more fairly and efficiently.

We unpack how the UK taxes savings, capital gains, and wealth — and ask what a fair, efficient system should look like.

If the Chancellor hopes to raise large sums from tax increases at the Budget, she should consider reforms that would make any increases less damaging.

A presentation on the fiscal situation, implications for councils and upcoming council funding reforms.

A workshop based on the Kantar houshold scanner dataset, used in nutrition, consumer demand and beyond. 

There is growing speculation about whether taxes will go up in the Autumn Budget and – if so – which ones.

Reform UK's tax plans aim to attract wealthy migrants but raise concerns over revenue impact, domicile rules, and administrative complexity.

Scotland’s Tax Strategy is welcome but says little concrete about tax policy. And some actual tax policy is divorced from any sensible strategy. 

At this event, an expert panel debated what part tax plays in housing market failures and what can be done to fix it.