*This episode was published in December 2023*

It feels like we pay a lot of tax in the UK but is that really true? Where do our taxes actually go? Are they wasted? And are we going to have to pay more in the future? Paul Johnson is the Director of the insanely well respected Institute for Fiscal Studies and in this episode he explains how we’ve got into this pickle, how we can get out of it - and why our feelings about paying too much tax might not be rooted in reality.

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