Civitas offers Government a growth manifesto

Matthew Barrett

Civitas recently set out some recommendations for George Osborne to boost economic growth:

• Reduce company taxation
• Eliminate unnecessary workplace regulations
• Reduce the cost of energy
• Cut personal taxes to make it easy to start new businesses
• Focus on manufacturing for export-led growth
• Intelligent procurement - give more government tenders to SMEs
• Reduce imports, to lessen the the import-export deficit
• Bank reform
• Focus on the manufacturing sector as a whole, not just research and development
• Apply a public interest test to all foreign direct investment
• Be more selective in giving government assistance to companies, based on clear tests

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