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Taxing packaging: a change to your takeaway
We look at whether a packaging tax could reduce litter and other environmental harm in the sixth of our blog posts considering new devolved taxes for Wales. We all know it, that foamy plastic packaging...
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Budget 2016: why it’s not just about the deficit
As speculation mounts about the budget on Wednesday 16th March, Victoria Winckler broadens the debate. On Sunday, I was a guest on the BBC’s Sunday Politics Wales show, talking about the options for...
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Budget 2016: initial thoughts on proposals for a sugary drinks tax
In a break from our series of blog posts looking at proposals for new devolved taxes for Wales, Nisreen Mansour responds to the UK Government’s announcement to introduce a UK-wide sugary drinks tax....
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Towards a prosperous, poverty-free Wales
Bold plans to reduce poverty in Wales by 100,000 by 2021 are reviewed by Victoria Winckler. Poverty seems to be one of those intractable problems that we are learning to live with. The number of people...
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Generation rent?
The biggest change in the housing market for a generation is under way – Victoria Winckler profiles 21st century private renters and says the sector is much more than students and young professionals....
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Tax credits: does Wales need an R&D injection?
Should Wales take control of R&D tax credits to boost the economy? Nisreen Mansour outlines the potential in the seventh of our blog posts considering new devolved taxes for Wales. R&D is one...
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2021 Challenge: Increasing and Spreading Prosperity in Wales
In the first of a series on the challenges facing the next Assembly, Victoria Winckler looks at prosperity. On most measures, Wales’ economy and labour market are struggling: below average GVA, below...
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2021 Challenge: Improving Life Chances
In the second of the series on the challenges facing the next Assembly, Victoria Winckler looks at the need to improve life chances. James Carville famously said ‘It’s the economy, stupid”. Well it is,...
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Why London’s housing crisis matters to Wales
Victoria Winckler peeps over the border to the debate about London’s housing crisis and asks if the solution lies in Wales. £1m toilet or £1m house? As well as the elections to the National Assembly...
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The Fifth Assembly: It aint what you do (it’s the way that you do it)
It is less than 96 hours since the polling stations shut their doors. Victoria Winckler says that the new Assembly needs to do more than welcome new faces. The 2016 election result brought many fewer...
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