My first experience of tax policy was, as a schoolboy, listening to
Philip Hardman’s analyses of the Budgets of the 1980s.Now I don’t want to give a false impression that, as a teenager, I had a
precocious interest in tax matters, or that I rushed home from school for the
sole purpose of watching a discussion about the tax changes contained in a
Budget. I like to think I was pretty normal for my age. And that my
interests were fairly typical for a teenage boy – cricket, football, girls and,
of course, macroeconomics.
