...victory would mean harsh tax increases for the average voter. In the wake of Labour's election defeat that April -- its fourth in a row -- Tony Blair argued that the tax issue had alarmed not only voters likely to be directly affected by the party's plans, but those who hoped to earn enough to be affected. As Richard Whiting's commendable study of the history of Labour's tax policies makes clear, the challenge the party faced in 1992 -- how to structure the tax system in such a way as to achieve its aims without alienating key supporters -- was hardly new. Add to this the institutional resistances often encountered (not least from the Inland Revenue itself) when trying to reform the tax system, and the existence of genuine practical limits to the pace of change, and it is hardly surprising that, in...

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