No shortage of ideas on taxes, but General Election plans need to be right ones

One inevitable consequence of a General Election campaign is that there is no shortage of tax ideas in the public domain. Most of these involve someone else paying more tax, while our family/business/cause (delete as appropriate) pays less.

Just as the Six Nations makes rugby pundits of us all, and the European Championships breeds prototype soccer panellists, an election breeds tax economists.

The political parties are the worst culprits. Their only defence is that they have skin in the tax changes game. All of this punditry risks trivialising what is a very serious business.