Taxes and benefits

This presentation was given at the launch of an OECD report ‘Connecting people with jobs: activation policies in the UK’ held at the Work Foundation, London, on 15 July 2014.

This presentation was delivered to the annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy on 2nd July 2014.

This presentation was given at a seminar at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis in The Hague on 2 July 2014.

This presentation was given at the Australian Conference of Economists in Tasmania, July 2014.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has today published its annual statistics on the distribution of household income in the UK. The latest data cover years up to and including 2012–13. This observation briefly highlights some of the key findings from DWP’s report.

This presentation was given at the Australian Treasury in June 2014.

This paper was presented at the Women's Economist Network (WEN) event on 23 June 2014 in London.

Government is a game of two halves — the spending half and the taxing half. If the latter isn’t pretty much as big as the former then in the long run we’ll be in trouble. To fund all the schools and hospitals, police and armed forces, roads and pensions, we pay more than £600bn in tax each year. That’s about £4 in every £10 generated by the economy.

This paper was presented at the CPP 10th Annual Summer Conference 'Problem Markets' on June 12th – 13th at University of East Anglia.

This presentation was given at the department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

This presentation was given at the CASE social exclusion seminar in June 2014.

This presentation was given at the TIGER forum in Toulouse.