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A Stroke of the Chancellor's Pen: The Social and Regional Impact of the Conservatives' 1988 Higher Rate Tax Cuts

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  • C Hamnett

    (Department of Geography, Kings College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England)

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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.

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  • C Hamnett, 1997. "A Stroke of the Chancellor's Pen: The Social and Regional Impact of the Conservatives' 1988 Higher Rate Tax Cuts," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 29(1), pages 129-147, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:29:y:1997:i:1:p:129-147
    DOI: 10.1068/a290129
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    1. R J Johnston, 1979. "The Spatial Impact of Fiscal Changes in Britain: Regional Policy in Reverse?," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 11(12), pages 1439-1444, December.
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    1. Dimitris Ballas & Graham P Clarke, 2001. "Modelling the Local Impacts of National Social Policies: A Spatial Microsimulation Approach," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 19(4), pages 587-606, August.
    2. Kevin Stenson & Paul Watt, 1999. "Governmentality and 'the Death of the Social'?: A Discourse Analysis of Local Government Texts in South-east England," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 36(1), pages 189-201, January.
    3. A E Green, 1998. "The Geography of Earnings and Incomes in the 1990s: An Overview," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 16(6), pages 633-647, December.

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