Future Forum North: Higher taxes bring little cheer for public services

By Martin Ford | 08 December 2023

The future for funding public services looks bleak despite record levels of taxation, the MJ’s Future Forum has heard.

The Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson, told the event in Manchester: ‘We have high taxes and less for public spending than you would have thought.’

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