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Gemma Tetlow @gemmatetlow.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A very interesting new report, coordinated by @centaxuk.bsky.social, is co-authored by nine think tanks from across the political spectrum and sets out 7 packages of tax reform that all agree would make the UK tax system "fairer, more effective and more pro-growth” centax.org.uk/tax-reforms-...

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Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Brilliant report from centax and others out yesterday. With even small tax changes seemingly able to wreck political reputations, we have to hope some appetite remains for the really big reforms that could boost growth. share.google/H8VbJvxsT5GZ...

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Centre for the Analysis of Taxation @centaxuk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🚨 NEW🚨 We’re really excited to launch ‘Tax Reforms for Growth’ today along with experts from across the political spectrum. Consensus on tax policy is rare, but we have a joint plan for fair, pro-growth tax reform in the UK🧵 centax.org.uk/tax-reforms-...

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Centre for the Analysis of Taxation @centaxuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

'How can we fund public services?' with @IPPR 🕘9am, Tuesday 📍Museum of Liverpool 👉 @dantomlinson.bsky.social 👉 @yuanfenyang.bsky.social 👉 @andy-summers.bsky.social 👉 @guardianheather.bsky.social 👉 Chair: @carsjung.bsky.social

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Centre for the Analysis of Taxation @centaxuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

'Can we design a tax system which taxes the wealthy and is pro-growth?' with CIOT. 🕛 12pm, Tuesday 📍Albert 3, Hilton Hotel 👉 Lloyd Hatton MP 👉 @gemmatetlow.bsky.social 👉 Emma Chamberlain @pumpcourtchambers.bsky.social 👉 @arunadvani.bsky.social 👉 Chair: Nichola Ross Martin

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Centre for the Analysis of Taxation @centaxuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

NEW: Removing the National Insurance (NICs) tax break for partnerships would raise £1.9bn while improving productivity. Here are some of our key findings 🧵 centax.org.uk/policy-repor...

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Policy report: Equalising National Insurance on Partnership Income: Revenue and Distributional Effects | CenTax

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Centre for the Analysis of Taxation @centaxuk.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

If someone's daily consumption is unchanged, but they live more days, they are clearly better off. but I'm not sure I would say they are *financially* better off. sure, from gvmt perspective they cost more, if gvmt is paying for that consumption stream, but per-period utility for indiv isn't higher

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Yes, but normal people don't think about their wealth based on public finances, they think about what they can afford each day/month/year bsky.app/profile/arun...

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Call for Papers for NBER Spring Public Meeting is out, submission link below! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Much credulous reporting by the Times, BBC News and others this week that Rachel Reeves has "softened" the non-dom rules due to an "exodus of 10,000 millionaires". Where's that figure from, then? And is it the real reason for Reeves' amendment? www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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Has Rachel Reeves given in to the non-doms?

Or is it just another win for the attention economy?

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Coda: here is a bit more of that sales pitch. Along with general talk about "wealthy Britons", who are anyway not affected by non-dom changes bcos Osborne 2017 reforms stopped almost all UK born folk (via Cond A) from using the regime. All very confused!

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Non-doms is a hard area, but useful to speak to an expert to check, rather than only a lobby group and the PR team of an org trying to sell its services (and apparently unsure of the difference between per cent and percentage points)

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It matters not just because you shd generally get the facts right, but bcos being out by 15x on how many ppl pay 30k totally changes plausibility of claims by lobby group cited as to how many ppl there are who wd pay 200k

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Disappointing piece on non-doms/millionaires in @thetimes.com Many things to object to, incl simple fact checking. No, there are not 37.8k ppl paying 30k a year to live here. There are 2.4k. Cd just check hmrc website for that. www.thetimes.com/article/labo... @tomjss.bsky.social #taxsky

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Labour’s tax plans trigger exodus of millionaires from UK

Since the general election was called one dollar millionaire has left Britain every 45 minutes

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Short thread on some of your point bsky.app/profile/arun...

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

None of this is to say that the headline wealth concentration or Gini measures from WAS are rising. But I think it is more helpful to look at what intuitions people have, and see if they are wrong, or just not smthng the data tell us about. In this case, the data just don't cover it.

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

As someone who does actually read the deets, you know WAS explicitly isn't sampling ppl without homes. It also isn't going to pick up ppl who are not spending much resid in UK (below from my paper, bcos I can't screenshot a nice short summary from WAS docs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

More charitably one cd say that there are lots of types of ineq (see IFS Deaton Review ifs.org.uk/inequality/). Many of these have increased. Also, ordinary ppl use "ineq" to mean "I see more homelessness + more luxury apartments", which isn't inconsistent with this

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Inequality: the IFS Deaton Review

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

2. Wealth *gaps* have increased. Wealth inequality measures relative share e.g. economy of 2 ppl, one with 10, one with 90 means top 50% has 90% of wealth. If wealth doubles, one has 20, other has 180. Top 50% is still 90%. But in £ the top has gone from having 80 more to 160 more than bottom

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

1b. Also, ppl are living longer, which is great but means that wealth is money they have to spread over a longer period = middle folk don't "feel" better off at any point in time. This is a wonderful outcome, they have time they are alive. But doesn't accord w/intuitive feeling of being wealthier

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

1a. Not obv that middle are "better off" for that wealth, bcos a large part has come from shift in pension wealth being held privately (vs state). Privatisation means we measure it If you excl pens wealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

That flatness comes from a mix of two things. 1. Rising wealth at the very top, and rising wealth in the middle. The top have definitely got more money in that period. 2. But so has the middle, and there are many more of them. Two HUGE caveats here

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I think late 1800s is as far back as you can get for UK. This is from Alvaredo Atkinson Morelli (www.tony-atkinson.com/wp-content/u... if you want all 115 pgs!) + a prettier vers wealth ineq was very high, 📉 1910s to hit low c.1980, then 📈 a bit til c.2000, since when it has been reasonably flat

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

We have a new paper on this out shortly (just been doing revisions for EER), focusing on measurement issues in WAS vs National Accounts. AAM use NA for denominator, bcos only thing avail, but it has problems in use for measuring private wealth

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

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Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

European economic association conf will be in Bordeaux this summer. Definitely worse places you could spend Aug! 📆Paper submission deadline Feb 28 #EconSky @sigginho.bsky.social and I looking forward to your public econ submissions

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A success story from the first minute: @centaxuk.bsky.social launch at Portcullis House, Westminster, tonight with standing room only and a waiting list of people who could not get in. Kudos to Andy Summers and Arun Advani @warwickecon.bsky.social 🚀

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