Truss tax cuts: Wonk warning on hit to public finances

LIZ TRUSS’ planned tax cuts would “completely crash the public finances,” warned the boss of one of the UK’s foremost economic think-tanks, the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

by | 29 Aug, 2022

Prospective new Prime Minister Liz Truss is expected to announce an emergency budget early on in her administration if she, as expected, is made leader of the Tory party next week.

But Institute of Fiscal Studies’ (IFS) director Paul Johnson said Truss had adopted a “simplistic” mantra that cutting taxes would grow the economy in an interview with The Times.

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