Helen Miller
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436 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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What does training look like, whether that's general training and further education or specific training for specific sectors?
in some sense if we don't want higher migration don't rely on that being the valve through which we adjust our labour markets thinking about how we like construction workers another example we talk to house builders they'll say well actually it's really hard to get skilled trades and in previous years we have just imported people with those skills but we know we need them so we can also think about further education colleges and making sure that people are being trained so yes I can imagine that world but I don't think it's inevitable I think we have the power to train to train people
Yeah, and this is a broad policy that's been talked about for decades at the IFS and elsewhere.
So I'm delighted to be here talking about capital gains tax.
It's always a good day.
I think capital gains tax discussions, though, I think are a bit tricky because there are basically two problems with capital gains tax.
And one of them is really obvious and one of them is really hard to explain.
So the obvious one is the one that everyone gets.
The capital gains tax rates are lower than income tax rates.
And that's where you get all these examples about a landlord paying more than a cleaner.
And that's unfair.
Less than a cleaner.
Yes, less than a cleaner.
Yeah, the cleaner's paying higher tax rates than landlords.
And those kinds of examples are, you know, clear examples of unfairness.
But the other problem with capital gains tax that no one really notices, or at least talks about, is that the way the tax basis design, the definition of what's actually taxed, which includes things like we tax inflationary gains for no good reason, that's actually really bad for investment incentives.
So you could...
Yeah, so let's imagine you buy an asset of some sort, Chris, or you've got a business asset, and you have a large capital gain over many years.
Yeah, Chris Price's soft play centre.
Brilliant.
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