Maya Forstater

@DanNeidle do you know of any decent estimates of yields on equalising CGT with income tax? Perhaps @HelenMiller_IFS knows.

Could we project from a 1% rise to full IT higher rate? And of course should we not be aspiring (blue sky) to ending NIC?

On CGT reform: what is rationale for having separate allowances for CGT (and dividends and savings, for that matter)? Other than a boon to people with flexibility to diversify sources of income?

Entrepreneurs’ relief really is much too generous, isn’t it?

It's also not clear what it's for. If the aim is to encourage new entrepreneurs it's very poorly targetted - better to give incentives upfront. Instead, it's a big tax break to business owners who can afford to keep income in their businesses

Totally agree. It should go, but can you imagine the headlines? I dared to suggest this at a talk I gave for an Oxford alumni group a couple of years ago and I was practically hounded out of the room by a couple of audience members.

Yeah - the labelling of this relief was very clever & makes getting rid of it hard (it would have been harder to defend 'retention releif'). Maybe the key is to design a better targed releif to replace it