Helen Miller
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436 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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We know how to do it.
And I was kind of pleased in what Wes Streeting was saying in that he sounded like he was excited talking about things like investment allowances and not wanting to discourage investment.
So I hope what he has in mind is this fuller set of reforms, more like what I'm talking about.
But it is worth highlighting what you said.
We've talked to lots of people, including the civil service, for years.
We've been writing about this for years at the IFS.
It's not a new proposal in some ways.
It's an idea that's been picked up by a bunch of people.
And it's not that...
similar to the Nigel Lawson system that we used to have.
It is a bit different, but it's not a million miles away.
So it's not as alien as it sounds, I don't think.
But if you wanted to do it, there's actually quite a long laundry list of things you'd have to do, including stop forgiving capital gains at death, stop letting people leave the country and
And it's true.
If you just put up rates of capital gains tax, then actually it wouldn't take too long before you did start losing some money.
The point being that if you don't just do that, you also try and stop flows at the border.
You stop other things.
If you do enough of that, it's good.
I mean, one thing that in some ways worried me a bit about what Wes Streeting said is,
which I think we should all be a bit sceptical about, is there was a line in there about, but of course we'll have lower rates for genuine entrepreneurs.
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