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Unintended consequences: the anti-growth ‘Mansion Tax’
The government has a wretched track record when it comes to measures stimulating the economy, (although its predecessor was little better). Another measure that risks…
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The Residential-Property Tax Trap
The Residential-Property Tax Trap Property taxes are flavour of the month in the lead-up to the Chancellor’s late November budget with much discussion taking place…
Could HS2’s route be put to better use?
Flying to Scotland from Southampton on a fine day recently, my eye soon picked up the brown streak across southern central counties that is the…
Gravy-Trains
Railways as we know them are 200 years old this year. An invention in which Britain takes much pride and about which, no doubt, the…
Regional economic disparities across the UK are proof of a failure of policy
The existing economic framework of the United Kingdom begs an important question. Does it comply with critical criteria laid down in the seminal 1960s work…
Why Passenger Aviation’s Carbon Emissions Are Likely Overstated
Over 40 years ago, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) established its technical Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP). Today, CAEP has completed at an…
How the tax system distorts the travel industry
Off the radar, because it was announced eighteen months ago, April saw a major change in taxation of travel by air. For some years now…
Is Heathrow’s proposed third runway too long?
Opposition to a third runway at London Heathrow received a boost recently when Willie Walsh, Chief Executive of IAG, British Airways’ holding company, launched a…
Infrastructure investment and economic growth
Government spending on infrastructure is a subject on which Keynesians and Neoclassicists tend to agree. The former are interested in the short-term stimulus effect, while…