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Red and Green Taxes Launch

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19 November 2008

Central London.

The regressive nature of the UK tax system – it takes more, as a proportion of income, from the poorest families in the UK than from the richest – undermines its ability to help create a fairer society. At the same time, there is widespread agreement that the government’s environmental tax record falls short of what is required to achieve its ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions. This raises fundamental questions about the ability of the UK tax system to play its part in achieving both social justice and environmental sustainability.

ippr’s new project, Red and Green Taxes, is taking a fresh look at the tax system to understand how we can create a system which is more progressive and at the same time more green. As part of this project, we will be constructing a sophisticated new tax-benefit model to help us develop robust recommendations for creating a fairer and greener tax system. At this event, we formally launched this new project.

Speakers

Paul Gregg, Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
Paul Ekins, Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, King’s College London
Adam Lent, Head of Economic and Social Affairs, TUC
Howard Reed, Research Associate, ippr

Contact

Kayte Lawton - k.lawton@ippr.org