The Taxation and Social Policy Group held the first event of their 2019 programme at Birmingham University on 12 February. The group was launched in 2018 with support from the SPA and aims to foster a greater interest in and understanding of the nature of taxation and its relationship to the core concerns of social policy, including resource allocation, inequality and social welfare.
Full details and recordings of the presentations delivered in February are now publicly available on the event page.
Speakers included: Andy Lymer , Professor of Accounting and Taxation and Director of CHASM, University of Birmingham; Fran Bennett, Senior Research and Teaching Fellow, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford; and Claire Keane, Senior Research Officer and Programme Manager for Taxation, Welfare and Pensions Research, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin.
