LONDON: The days of tax cuts in Britain are over and the baby-boomer generation should prepare for higher wealth taxes to fund an inevitable surge in healthcare costs, the Resolution Foundation think tank said on Monday. The new research showed spending on education, social security and above all health looks set to rise by 20 billion pounds a year in today’s money by the end of the next decade and by 60 billion pounds a year by 2040. Most of the increase will be caused by spending on health as Britain’s population ages – a demographic timebomb that means the “age of tax cuts is over”, David Willetts, chair of the Resolution Foundation and a former Conservative government minister, said. “The time has come when we boomers are going to have reach into our own pockets. The alternative could be an extra 15 (pence) on the basic rate of tax, paid largely by our kids.” Published in Daily Times, March 6th 2018