A Stroke of the Chancellor's Pen
The Social and Regional Impact of the Conservatives' 1988 Higher Rate Tax Cuts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4142096 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Hamnett (0000-0001-9944-5891, King's College - North Carolina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 129-147 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a290129 |
| OpenAlex | W2038542569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 12 |
The geography of income and taxation is an important but underresearched subject. Given the uneven geography of incomes, changes in tax regimes are likely to have an uneven regional impact. The author examines the social and spatial impact of the Conservative government's 1988 higher rate income tax cuts in Britain. It is shown that, in addition to their highly regressive social impact, the 1988 tax cuts favoured the South East where the concentration of high income earners is most marked. This had a significant impact on the late 1980s consumption and housing market boom in the South East
Boom · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · Income tax · Labour economics · Market economy · Sociology · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political and Economic history of UK and US
The Social Regulation of Uneven Development
Hobbes’ redoubt? Toward a geography of monetary policy
Women’s pay in English rural districts
Spatial Divisions of Welfare
Analysing the regional geography of poverty, austerity and inequality in Europe
Governmentality and 'the Death of the Social
A tax on success? Privatization, employment and the ‘Windfall Tax’
From rags to riches? Migration and intergenerational change in London's housing market, 1971–91
Restructuring the British Financial Sector into the Twenty-first Century
Geography and inequality
Spatial Divisions of Labour
Housing Assets and Consumer Spending
The relative level and changes in earnings in London and Great Britain
Uneven Development in Capitalist Societies
The Political Economy of Britain's North-South Divide
Local modes of social regulation? Regulation theory, thatcherism and uneven development
A Measure of Thatcherism
The Victorian Middle Classes
Wealth, Elites and the Class Structure of Modern Britain
The Spatial Impact of Fiscal Changes in Britain
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2017 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |