The British public have seemingly accepted the inevitability of the Coalition-government's ambitious fiscal consolidation plan despite the fact that it may harm many. In this context of general acquiescence, many existing accounts appeal to elites: notably, how the narration of a Debt Crisis has...

The stated aim of providing personalised tax receipts to income taxpayers is to enhance fiscal transparency, but doing so may also damage support for state spending if the documents provide a sense that current redistributive policies are unfair. This article analyses these dynamics through a...