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By John Campbell
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A commission to examine the possibility of giving Stormont more taxation powers is to be led by the economist Paul Johnson.
Mr Johnson is the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a high-profile think tank.
Finance Minister Conor Murphy expects it will take about nine months for the commission to complete its work.
He said its conclusions will be published before next year s Northern Ireland Assembly election.
Northern Ireland is the only one of the devolved regions not to have conducted a comprehensive taxation review of this sort. Important discussion