Better Budgets: Has tax policy making improved?
b'Six years ago, the Institute for Government, Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Chartered Institute of Taxation published a joint report on Better Budgets: making tax policy better. Based on extensive interviews with tax policy stakeholders, the report concluded that the tax policy-making process was seriously flawed and that \\u2013 to reduce taxpayer confusion, cut down costly errors and avoid embarrassing U-turns \\u2013 the government should overhaul how it makes tax and budget decisions.\\n\\nSix years on from the report, and as chancellor Jeremy Hunt prepares to present his first budget following a tumultuous autumn for tax policy, this event will look back on the conclusions we reached and the recommendations we made. Did our report identify the right problems and solutions? Have there been any improvements in tax policymaking since then? And have any new problems or unexpected solutions appeared?\\n\\nTo discuss these questions and more, our expert panel will include:\\n\\nBill Dodwell, Outgoing Tax Director at the Office of Tax Simplification and former CIOT President\\nPaul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies\\nJill Rutter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government\\nSir Edward Troup, Tax and Tax Policy Commentator and former HMRC Permanent Secretary\\n\\nThe event is chaired by Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government.'