Government needs coherent tax strategy, says new IFS Director

Speaking at her first engagement as Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Helen Miller said that the Government should focus on the ‘big challenges’ adopting a coherent tax strategy rather than ‘tinkering around the edges’.

At the event ‘Labour’s first year in power: Is this still a mission-driven government?’ hosted jointly with the Institute for Government Miller said: ‘Labour came to office with the promise of a “mission-driven” government – a commitment to long-term thinking and systemic reform. The ambition that we should be “raising our sights as a nation” and finding ways to tackle the big challenges we face is the right one. Despite this we continue to limp from fiscal event to fiscal event obsessed with whether run of the mill revisions to the economic and fiscal outlook have reduced the fiscal headroom and whether tax or spend takeaways will follow....