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Our Chairman @ShankerASingham has a message for the G7 leaders meeting in France this week👇
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The Growth Commission
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The Growth Commission
@TheGrowthComm
Non-partisan international economists modelling the effect on GDP per capita growth of policy & fiscal proposals. Sign up for updates: eepurl.com/iZKfhA
Joined April 2023
- Our verdict on the Budget is out! While overall tax revenue may increase by a little over £35 billion in a year, this will be more than offset by the requirement to borrow in excess of £50 billion a year by 2030/31 as a result of the 3.4% hit to growth. In other words, the
- Chancellor @RachelReevesMP can't say she wasn't warned. We calculated before her first Budget that abolition of non-dom status would reduce GDP by 0.5% and lead to a loss of revenue for the Exchequer of at least £5 billion and urged her not to do it...Treasury Rolls Pitch for Non-Dom Inheritance Tax U-Turn After Huge Exodus order-order.com/2025/06/17/tre…
- The group will use new economic modelling to better project the effects of certain policies 5, 10 and 20 years down the line. Their paper pointed out that growth is key to solving the current cost of living crisis.
- In damning the @OBR_UK for refusing to 'score' the supply-side effects of his welfare reform proposals, @Keir_Starmer perfectly demonstrates why we at the Growth Commission shun the unreliable static analysis favoured by Whitehall in favour of dynamic economic modelling.
00:00 - ‘Averaging 3% growth over 20 years would mean £15,000 more per person and additional tax revenues of £670bn.’ The Growth Commission argues that consistent growth levels of 3% are achievable and would significantly improve individual wealth. #TheGrowthCommission #GrowthCrisis
- Our Chairman @ShankerASingham is quoted on the front page of the @Telegraph with a final warning for the Government ahead of today’s ‘EU reset’ summit 👇 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…
- ❗️We have calculated that new Carbon Taxes (CBAM) would cost the average household £2400 during its implementation period. bit.ly/43uajSh @ShankerASingham told the @Telegraph : "We are concerned this will pile on costs to the UK consumer, on top of historically high
- 🚨 NEW: The Growth Budget shows another way of looking at the economy which will lead to growth. Years of stagnation is not yet inevitable. 📰To know more read the write up on @Bloomberg
- NEW: Based on the Chancellor's hinted measures, we estimate the UK is still set for economic stagnation. ❓But could the Autumn Statement still create further growth? Tomorrow we'll analyse what the full measures mean for the UK economy. Understand what to expect ahead of
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- 🚨We will be running the numbers using our Growth Model on today's Autumn Statement measures to get their impact on growth for the short and long-term. 📉Stay tuned to our feed to get our latest analysis.
GIF - Don't be fooled by the headline increase in GDP of 0.1% in today's figures. Below is the @ONS graph that tells the real story: the increasing population means household income is falling as measured by GDP per capita, which is the measure by which the Government asked us to judge
- “Britons will be poorer than Malaysians, Poles and Turks by 2050 unless we change course” - Growth Commissioner @DMcWilliams_UK previews his new book for the @Telegraph 👇
