Videos and audio
This section of the website allows you to access recordings of debates on tax matters hosted by CIOT. Often these are organised jointly with the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
We hold these debates in support of our objective of promoting debate on tax policy and administration, bringing together policy-makers (politicians and civil servants), administrators, tax professionals, economists, journalists, commentators and others with an interest in tax policy.
These debates are usually free to attend and open to all, and details of forthcoming debates can be found here.
If you would like to be added to the email invite list to be informed about forthcoming events please email [email protected] including your name, firm or other organisation, job title (if applicable) and the email address you would like invites sent to.
Currently available debates are:
2024
CIOT and IFS Debate: How is tax damaging the housing market and how can we fix it? 27 November 2024
Speakers: Stuart Adam (Senior Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies), Meera Chindooroy (Deputy Director, Campaigns, Public Affairs and Policy, National Residential Landlords Association), John Powlton (Head of Investment Management Tax, M&G, and member of the British Property Federation Tax Committee), Josh Ryan-Collins (Professor of Economics and Finance, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose). Chair: Helen Miller (Deputy Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies). (In person debate, also streamed)
CIOT and IFS debate: What should be in the business tax roadmap? 4 September 2024
Speakers: Macfarlanes LLP Head of Public Policy and Treasury minister 2010-17 Rt. Hon. David Gauke, RELX Head of Tax and Treasury Dominic Mathon, IFS Deputy Director Helen Miller and CIOT Director of Public Policy Ellen Milner. Chair: CIOT President Charlotte Barbour. (In person debate, also streamed) (Read the report here.)
CIOT and IFS debate: What should the tax priorities for the new parliament be? 16 July 2024
Speakers: IFS Deputy Director Helen Miller, Confederation of British Industry Head of Tax Policy Alice Jeffries, The Guardian Columnist Polly Toynbee and CIOT Head of Tax Technical Richard Wild. Chair: CIOT President Charlotte Barbour. (Debate held entirely online.) (Read the report here.)
CTA Address 2024: How will AI affect tax professionals and the tax system? 5 June 2024
Speaker: Conrad Young, former Chief Digital Officer at Deloitte' and Chair of the Advisory Board at the Oxford Internet Institute. Respondents: Bivek Sharma, Chief Technology Officer for PwC UK; Shan Sun, Tax Technology lead at Deliveroo. Chair: CIOT President Charlotte Barbour. (In person address and discussion, also streamed)(Read the report here.)
CIOT and IFS debate: Should VAT be charged on private school fees? 15 April 2024
Speakers: Director of Big for Tax Kerry Sykes, IFS Senior Research Economist Stuart Adam, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government and Senior Adviser to Ark Schools Sam Freedman and Chief Executive of the Independent Schools Council Julie Robinson. Chair: CIOT Deputy President Charlotte Barbour. (Debate held entirely online.) (Read the report here.)
2023
CIOT and IFS online debate: How should non-doms be taxed? 29 November 2023
Speakers: joint chair of CIOT's Private Client (International) Committee Emma Chamberlain, Blick Rothenberg CEO Nimesh Shah, associate professor at the University of Warwick Arun Advani and Kirk Rice tax adviser Jane Page. (Debate held entirely online.) (Read the report here.)
CIOT and IFS Labour Conference debate 2023: Tax and Public Finance Challenges Facing the Next Government 9 October 2023
Speakers: Shadow Financial Secretary James Murray MP, IFS Director Paul Johnson and CIOT director of public policy Ellen Milner. Chair: CIOT President Gary Ashford. (In person debate, also recorded.) (Read the report here.)
CIOT and IFS Conservative Party Conference debate 2023: Tax and Public Finance Challenges Facing Britain 2 October 2023
Speakers: IFS Director Paul Johnson, Conservative peer Lord Leigh and CIOT President Gary Ashford. Chair: Rhiannon Kinghall Were. (In person debate, also streamed.) (Read the report here.)
CIOT and IFS Debate: Where next for income tax? 26 June 2023
Speakers: John Barnett (Partner, Burges Salmon and Chair, CIOT Technical Policy and Oversight Committee), Fran Bennett (Associate Fellow, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford), Tom Waters (Associate Director and Head of Income, Work and Welfare, IFS), Nigel Mills (Conservative MP for Amber Valley and former Tax Adviser). Chair: Gary Ashford (CIOT President). (In person debate, also streamed. Read the report here.)
CIOT and IFS Debate: Carbon border adjustment – what approach should the UK take? 24 May 2023
Speakers: Michael Keen (Ushioda Fellow at University of Tokyo and ex-IMF), Alice Pirlot (Assistant Professor, Centre for Finance and Development, Geneva Graduate Institute), Jennifer Rowland (Deputy Director for Energy and Transport Tax, HM Treasury), Richard Woolley (Head of Energy and Climate Change, Chemical Industries Association). Chair: Helen Miller (IFS Deputy Director). (Debate held entirely online. Read the report here.)
CIOT, IFG and IFS Debate: Better Budgets: Has tax policy making improved? 6 March 2023
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, Chair: Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government. (In person debate, also streamed.) (Read the report here.)
2022
CIOT and IFS Conservative Conference Debate 2022: Can Tax Help Tackle the Cost-of-Living Crisis?
Speakers: Stuart Adam, Senior Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Chris Giles, Economics Editor, Financial Times, John Myers, Founder, Working Policy Project, Chair: Susan Ball, President, CIOT. (In person debate, also streamed.) (Read the report here)
CIOT and IFS Labour Conference Debate 2022: Can Tax Help Tackle the Cost-of-Living Crisis?
Speakers: Shadow Financial Secretary James Murray MP (Lab), Paul Johnson, Director of the IFS, Chris Giles, Economics Editor and columnist at the Financial Times, CIOT President Susan Ball (chair). (In person debate, also streamed.) (Read the report here)
CIOT and IFS Debate: How should the tax system treat pension saving? 5 July 2022
Speakers: Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director of the IFS (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Glyn Bradley is Principal, UK Wealth (Policy, Professionalism and Research) at Mercer and a member of the CIOT Employment Taxes Committee, Kelly Sizer, Senior Technical Manager at the CIOT’s Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) and Charlotte Clark is Director of Regulation at the Association of British Insurers (ABI). (In person debate, also streamed.) (Read the report here)
CIOT and IFS Debate: Should the government introduce an online sales tax? 10 May 2022
Speakers: Stuart Adam (Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies), Nick Lakin (Group Director of Corporate Affairs, Kingfisher plc), Alasdair McGowan, (Head of Public Affairs/Government Relations at eBay UK) and Gabby Donald (KPMG LLP, and the chair of CIOT’s Indirect Taxes Committee). (In person debate, also streamed.) (Read the report here)
Is it time for a windfall tax? Tuesday 1 March 2022
Speakers: Stuart Adam (Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies), Chris Sanger (Global Government and Tax Risk Leader, EY, and policy adviser on the 1997 windfall tax on the privatised utilities), Heather Self (Partner, Blick Rothenberg (and Group Tax Director at Scottish Power 2002-6) and Michael Jacobs (Professor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield, and former Special Adviser on energy, environment and climate policy at the Treasury and 10 Downing St (2004-10)). (debate held entirely online). (read the report here)
2021
Podcast: main tax themes to emerge from this month’s Scottish Budget. 15 December 2021
CIOT Head of External Relations George Crozier sits down with Joanne Walker, CIOT’s Technical Officer covering Scottish taxes and Chris Young, External Relations Manager for Scotland
What is the role of tax in getting to net zero? 21 October 2021
Speakers: Alex Bowen (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics), Peter Levell (IFS), Femke Groothuis (Ex’tax Project), Chris Morgan (KPMG International) (debate held entirely online) (read report here)
Conservative Party Conference debate: Is Britain ready for a wealth tax?
Speakers: Stuart Adam (IFS), Emma Chamberlain OBE (Pump Court Tax Chambers and CIOT) and Felicity Buchan MP (sits on the House of Commons Treasury Committee). (read the report here)
Labour Party Conference debate: A Wealth Tax to help pay for Covid? 28 September 2021
Speakers: Dame Angela Eagle MP, House of Commons Treasury Committee, Arun Advani (Wealth Tax Commission), Helen Miller (IFS) and Chair was John Cullinane (Director of Public Policy, Chartered Institute of Taxation). (read the report here)
How should platforms and gig economy workers be taxed? 23 June 2021
Speakers: Stuart Adam (IFS), Neil Ross (techUK), Bill Dodwell (OTS), Meredith McCammond (LITRG) (debate held entirely online) (read report here)
CTA Address, held on Thursday 6 May 2021
Leading environmental economist Sir Dieter Helm on environmental taxation and the role that tax and other carbon pricing mechanisms can play. (read the report here)
How high should the corporate tax rate be? held Thursday 22 April 2021
Speakers: Helen Miller (IFS), Morag Loader (Infrastructure Project Finance Tax Specialist), Brian Chapman (ex-BAE Systems), David Murray (Anglo American) (debate held entirely online) (read report here)
UK and Ireland: doing business post-Brexit, held Tuesday 9 March 2021
Speakers: Sally Jones (EY, London), John O’Loughlin (PwC, Dublin), Daniel Taylor (HMRC), Rose Tierney (Tierney Tax Consultancy) (debate held entirely online) (read report here)
(held jointly with the Association of Taxation Technicians and the Irish Tax Institute)
Launch of Treasury Committee Report: Tax after Coronavirus, held Monday 1 March 2021
Speakers: Rt Hon Mel Stride MP, Angela Eagle MP, Peter Rayney, Janine Juggins, Gemma Tetlow, Victoria Todd (event held entirely online) (read report here)
2020
NB. The hyperlinks to videos can be found at the top of the blogs (with audio recordings at the bottom of the older blogs)
VAT and Customs Duties after Brexit, held on Tuesday 8 December 2020
Speakers: Daniel Lyons, Mojgan Ahmad (HMRC), Barbara Scott (Customs Practitioners Group), Chris Giles (FT) (debate held entirely online)
Tax after the Pandemic (Conservative Party online conference debate), held on Monday 5 October 2020
Speakers: Rt Hon Jesse Norman, Deborah Mattinson, Helen Miller, Peter Rayney (debate held entirely online)
Tax after the Pandemic (Labour Party online conference debate), held on Tuesday 22 September 2020
Speakers: Anneliese Dodds, Glyn Fullelove, Helen Miller, Deborah Mattinson (debate held entirely online)
Where next for Capital Gains Tax?, held Thursday 17 September 2020
Speakers: Stuart Adam, Katherine Bullock, Stephen Herring, Robert Palmer (debate held entirely online)
Launch of Treasury Committee Inquiry: Tax after Coronavirus, held Friday 17 July 2020
Speakers: Rt Hon Mel Stride MP, Angela Eagle MP, Glyn Fullelove, Gemma Tetlow, Sam Mitha, Heather Self
CTA Address, held Thursday 2 July 2020
Professor Stephen Mayson gave the 2020 Virtual Chartered Tax Advisers’ Address on the subject of regulation (address given online)
'Tax in the 2010s: Successes and Failures', held on Wednesday 24 June 2020
Speakers: David Gauke, Chris Leslie, Jane McCormick, Stuart Adam (debate held entirely online)
Earlier years
Debate on Digital Services Tax, held on Monday 18 November 2019
Debate on Taxing Commercial Property, held on Tuesday 18 June 2019
Tax devolution – a help or hindrance to the UK’s cities, regions and nations? Held on 22 October 2018 (only audio available)
Debate on Taxing Families, 30 years after the introduction of independent taxation, held on 26 June 2018 (only audio available)
Business Tax Reliefs: corporate welfare or essential elements of the tax system? Held on 5 March 2018 (only audio available)
Irish and UK inheritance tax regimes contrasted, held on 16 October 2017 (only audio available)
John Whiting: Tax Simplification Lecture plus panel discussion, held on 12 June 2017 (only audio available)
Debate: How should different ways of working be taxed? Held on 20 March 2017 (only audio available)