Main menu For students For teachers Explore our subjects Student events & courses

Explore

More for students
Sign in

Teaching Economics

Blog

Revision: Progressive and regressive taxes

Geoff Riley

10th April 2008

Share this content:

A row has been brewing within the Labour Party about the decision by Gordon Brown when he was Chancellor – confirmed in the 2008 Budget – to scrap the 10 per cent ‘starting rate of income tax’ partly as a way of reducing the basic rate of income tax from 22% to 20% (from April 2008). One of the related issues to this is how the income tax system affects the final distribution of income in the UK and, in particular, the distinction between progressive and regressive taxes. This revision note is for AS and A2 students and considers amongst other ideas, the progressivity of the UK income tax system.

Revision note article Revision_Progressive_Regressive_Taxation.pdf

Share this content:

Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

You might also like

Ending Peruvian Poverty

8th October 2015

Global Goals are set to address poverty and underdevelopment

6th October 2015

Dissecting the Commodity Price Meltdown

5th October 2015

Uber faces UK regulatory review

2nd October 2015

How do you deal with someone who thinks the Earth is flat?

23rd September 2015

Don't panic - how to end poverty!

23rd September 2015

Teaching PowerPoints for A Level Economics

23rd September 2015

John McDonnell's Economics

16th September 2015