Will it work? Taxing private school fees March 28, 2024 It’s an election year. Politicians are giving us a barrage of policies. But we often forget to ask the most important question: will they actually work? In this column Sam Fowles take policies on their own terms and asks whether they solve the problem they’re supposed to solve. Labour’s pledge to end the VAT exemption [...]
What the modellers don’t tell you about taxing private school fees March 20, 2024 The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ claims that the policy will raise money do not take into account the unintended consequences – economic models rarely do, says James Price I often tell people that the best way to make God laugh is to tell Him your plans. This is at least in part because the most [...]