Miriam Cates MP hosted in February a well attended Zoom parliamentary launch of the new Care and Tax and the Family report on the taxation of families in the UK and other OECD in 2019.
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Tax and the Family have developed an important resource which enables researchers to model the impact on household finances of income tax, national insurance contributions and benefits. This is particularly important given the number of households now claiming universal credit and the legacy benefits.
Read MoreA new report published by CARE compares the direct tax burden, income tax rates and effective marginal tax rates of families in the UK with similar families in other countries in 2019.
Read MoreResearch by Tax and Family shows that single-earner couples and single parents have higher income tax liabilities than other households with the same standard of living.
Read MoreImportant new research by Tax and the Family challenges the widely held view that it is the better off who bear the biggest income tax burdens.
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The House of Commons Treasury Select Committee is carrying out looking at the tax challenges that the country will face coming out of the coronavirus pandemic. It is asking not only what level of taxation the economy can bear but also what parts of the tax system are most in need of reform.
Read MoreThe cost of the coronavirus virus will unavoidably result in a bigger tax burden, Don Draper of Tax and the Family says, and it is all the more important therefore that the tax burden should be shared fairly.
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Tax and the Family recently sat down with Claire Paye from Mothers at Home Matter to discuss the current tax system.
Read MoreTax and the Family have written to Sajid Javid, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, about the way families are taxed and in particular about the high marginal rates of “tax” so many taxpayers with children face. Figures seen by Tax and the Family suggest that the State takes back from a third of all families with children 80%, or in some cases 90%, of any new income.
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