DEBATE: Better Budgets: have we succeeded in making tax policy better?
Debate hosted jointly by CIOT, the Institute for Government and Institute for Fiscal Studies
Monday 6 March 2023, 17:45 - 19:00 at the Institute for Government and online
Six years ago, the Institute for Government, Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Chartered Institute of Taxation published a joint report on ‘Better Budgets: Making Tax Policy Better’. Based on extensive interviews with tax policy stakeholders, the report concluded that the tax policy making process was not fit for purpose and that – to reduce taxpayer confusion, cut down costly errors and avoid embarrassing U-turns – the government must change the way it makes tax and budget decisions.
Six years on from the report, after a tumultuous autumn for tax policy, and as Jeremy Hunt prepares to present his first Budget, this event will reflect on that report and what has happened since, asking: Did the report identify the right problems and solutions? Have there been any improvements in tax policymaking since then? Have any new problems or unexpected solutions appeared?
Join our panel of experts at the Institute for Government in London, or online, on Monday 6 March 2023 for discussion of these crucial and topical questions.
Join us to discuss how tax policy-making can be improved.
Better Budgets: has tax policy making improved?
Monday 6 March 2023 | 17:45 - 19:00
Venue: The Institute for Government, 2 Carlton Gardens, London, SW1Y 5AA.
Speakers:
Bill Dodwell, Outgoing Tax Director at the Office of Tax Simplification and former CIOT President
Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Jill Rutter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government
Sir Edward Troup, Tax and Tax Policy Commentator and former HMRC Permanent Secretary
The event will be chaired by Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government.
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