Pitching ideas for tax reform
Successive British governments have failed to address well-known problems with the tax system. The Institute for Government is looking at why it has been so hard to make significant, sensible reforms to the tax system, and what could be changed to make this easier in future.\n\nTo better understand the barriers to reform and potential solutions, this event invited a series of tax reform advocates to pitch their ideas to a panel of tax experts.\n\nTax experts\n\nRupert Harrison, Portfolio Manager at BlackRock and former special adviser to George Osborne\nPaul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies\nJill Rutter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government\nPaul Wallace, economic journalist and author (former European Economics Editor at The Economist)\nTax reformers\n\nSam Bowman, Senior Fellow and former Executive Director of the Adam Smith Institute\nShreya Nanda, Economist at the Institute for Public Policy Research\nAlfie Stirling, Head of Economics at the New Economics Foundation\nThe event was chaired by Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist, Institute for Government\n\nThis event forms part of a series sponsored by Deloitte.