Article: Perce Harpham
It is regrettable that the opportunity to consider both Tax and Benefits at the same time has been lost or, at the least, delayed. Both the Tax working Group and the Welfare Expert Advisory Group had great objectives set out for them but they were hamstrung by their Terms of Reference. As a result, apart from the Capital Gains Tax, neither group produced any significant ideas for new taxes or system wide structural changes.
Neither considered the possibilities for Basic Incomes (BI) to be joined with supporting tax or taxes to produce a fairer and more effective […]
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