A New Report Has Radical Ideas On Reforming Tax – The Government Should Listen telegraph.co.uk

There was chatter this week in favour of slapping green taxes on steak and roast beef. It made me see red. Luckily, even Theresa May seems unlikely to fall for such a dismal, nannying and illiberal idea.

But the Conservatives’ economic policy still lacks red meat of a less literal kind. After an uneventful Budget, the search for visionary policy ideas to steal a march on Jeremy Corbyn continues.

Those new ideas will have to come from outside the current Government, which seems to have all its creative ingenuity focused on finding more ways to grab tax. This week saw the announcement of a new death tax via probate fees, the launch of a consultation to make it harder to use trusts for inheritance…