What would a land value tax actually do?
I just wrote in the Sunday Times about the political and economic case for a land value tax. I think the principled argument for…
What if Andy Burnham lowered the mansion tax threshold to £1.5m?
The November 2025 Budget introduced a “mansion tax” – formally, the “high value council tax surcharge” – an annual charge on homes worth £2m…
Has Britain run out of “other people” to tax?
British politics has spent a generation avoiding the same uncomfortable question: what if the government people want costs more than most voters are willing…
The UK has 90 different taxes. France has 348. Germany has 60. Why?
The UK has 90 different taxes – more than at any time since 1834. France, on the other hand, has 348. But Germany, which…
Why does Britain have more taxes than at any time since 1834?
Tax in the UK is the highest it’s been since 1945. That’s well understood – but another trend has been largely missed: the number…
90 UK taxes. On one chart.
The UK has 90 taxes. This chart shows them all, and this article explains why we have so many. Update 29 May 2026: the…
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