Pitching ideas for tax reform

Successive British governments have failed to address well-known problems with the tax system. The Institute for Government is looking at why it has been so hard to make significant, sensible reforms to the tax system, and what could be changed to make this easier in future.

To better understand the barriers to reform and potential solutions, this event invited a series of tax reform advocates to pitch their ideas to a panel of tax experts.

Tax experts

• Rupert Harrison, Portfolio Manager at BlackRock and former special adviser to George Osborne
• Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Jill Rutter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government
• Paul Wallace, economic journalist and author (former European Economics Editor at The Economist)

Tax reformers

• Sam Bowman, Senior Fellow and former Executive Director of the Adam Smith Institute
• Shreya Nanda, Economist at the Institute for Public Policy Research
• Alfie Stirling, Head of Economics at the New Economics Foundation

The event was chaired by Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist, Institute for Government

This event forms part of a series sponsored by Deloitte.

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