Plucked!

A guide to a fair, simple, efficient and politically feasible tax and benefits system

A book-length case for reforming UK taxes and benefits, written with Gordon Styles in 2020. Its fourteen chapters run from the ideas behind taxation and the principles of a good tax system to welfare and work, inequality, corporations, land and property, money and debt, and the environment, and end with a set of proposals.

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The views expressed are the authors’ own.

Contents

• Chapter 1: Facing Global Risks Head On
• Chapter 2: Revolutions in the Minds of Men
• Chapter 3: Desert Island Economics
• Chapter 4: The Questions Posed by This Book
• Chapter 5: Tax in Principle
• Chapter 6: Tax in Practice
• Chapter 7: Welfare and Work
• Chapter 8: Income, Wealth and Inequality
• Chapter 9: Corporations
• Chapter 10: Land and Property
• Chapter 11: Money, Debt, and Finance
• Chapter 12: Environment, Health, and Resources
• Chapter 13: The Global Perspective: Climate, Fiscal Policy and Collective Action
• Chapter 13: Conclusions