Corporate welfare should be viewed in-the-round One of the criticisms made of The British Corporate Welfare State was that wage subsidies do not function as corporate welfare.  The evidence on the effects of wage subsidies is, […]

Business groups reject PM’s plan to replace tax credits with higher pay 07/07/15 18:21 Article in the Guardian covering the responses of the Chambers of Commerce and Institute of Directors to David Cameron’s ‘plan’ to replace in-work […]

“Firms paying poor wages are the real benefit cheats” 04/07/15 16:20 Article by Patrick Collinson on low pay and wage subsidies at a number of large retailers, including Next and Tesco’s – http://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2015/jul/04/firms-paying-poor-wages-benefit-cheats-tax-credits