The urge to spend more on tulip bulbs than I can afford....

Really interesting piece from Adam Khan at Common Wealth that ties together a whole load of very wonky but important topics: how to score public investment, hurdle rates, and (the villain of the piece) Green Book cost-benefit analysis! www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...

A Fine Balance | Perspectives

On Labour’s fiscal and accounting rules.

Brilliant to end to another great #LabourConference24@ippr.bsky.social with a conversation between Chancellor Rachel Reeves, White House economist Heather Boushey, and Harry Quilter-Pinner

The OBR's fiscal risks report is out today. But unlike what some suggest, it implies that we do have significant fiscal space (if used wisely). The baseline scenario sees net debt rise to 130 per cent of GDP at the middle of century - that's lower than Japan and Italy today! 1/5

📢 New @ippr.bsky.social guest blog Over the next few weeks, former No 10 staffer Mark Lloyd will be sketching out a series of reforms to better set the UK's tax system up for the future 🏦In Part 1, Mark sets out the case for an Online (or Remote) Sales Tax to update business rates ⏬

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💰| NEW BLOG: In the first of a series of guest blogs for IPPR, former Number 10 tax adviser Mark Lloyd writes on why business rates are stuck in the past. www.ippr.org/articles/bus...

Business rates are stuck in the past: The enduring case for an online sales tax | IPPR

Britain’s business tax system is out of date. Taxation falls more onto traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ businesses with physical premises, while online reta

💰| NEW BLOG: In the first of a series of guest blogs for IPPR, former Number 10 tax adviser Mark Lloyd writes on why business rates are stuck in the past. www.ippr.org/articles/bus...

Business rates are stuck in the past: The enduring case for an online sales tax | IPPR

Britain’s business tax system is out of date. Taxation falls more onto traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ businesses with physical premises, while online reta

The UK government‘s target for near zero emissions electricity by 2030 will require monumental change. Doubters will say that it‘s impossible. But if you said 10 years ago that in 2024 coal would be gone many would have laughed at you.

the idea of 9,000 millionaires leaving Britain sounds dramatic until you remember there are 2,849,000 millionaires in this country it’s literally a rounding error given the ebb and flow of migration

More than two-thirds of senior managers support Labour’s workers rights reforms - and 73% back a day one right to protection from unfair dismissal www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

Labour’s plans to boost workers’ rights widely supported by managers, poll says

Survey of business decision-makers comes as TUC hits back at corporate lobbying against the proposals

Indeed, we found overwhelming majorities of managers thought the package of reforms would benefit staff health, retention, investment productivity and profitability