Budgets

Green Budget 2001

The Green Budget 2001 was edited by Andrew Dilnot, Carl Emmerson and Helen Simpson, and copy-edited by Judith Payne.

It was produced with support from the Nuffield Foundation and the ESRC-funded Centre for Fiscal Policy at IFS.

You can download the whole document [877 KB] here. Individual chapters can be downloaded below, also as acrobat files.

Chapter 1: SUMMARY

Chapter 2: AN AUDIT OF THE PUBLIC FINANCES

2.1 A chill wind from overseas 2.2 How fast can the UK economy grow? 2.3 Economic prospects

Chapter 3: AN AUDIT OF THE PUBLIC FINANCES

3.1 The government's fiscal rules 3.2 Issues in planning government revenues 3.3 Issues in planning government spending 3.4 Borrowing in 2000-01 3.5 Borrowing in 2001-02 3.6 How does the current government differ from previous administrations? 3.7 Medium-term borrowing forecasts 3.8 The Budget judgement

Chapter 4: PERSONAL TAXES AND BENEFITS

4.1 A package for children 4.2 Personal tax cuts 4.3 Conclusion

Chapter 5: FUEL AND THE ENVIRONMENT

5.1 The economics of tax design 5.2 Taxation of private motoring 5.3 Other environmental taxes 5.4 Announcements in the Pre-Budget Report 5.5 Conclusion

Chapter 6: TAX POLICY AND COMPANIES

6.1 Productivity and fiscal incentives 6.2 Recent UK corporate tax reforms 6.3 Double taxation relief 6.4 Taxing North Sea oil

Chapter 7: LONGER TERM WELFARE REFORM

7.1 The new transfers 7.2 Common trends to the government’s tax and benefit reforms

APPENDICES

Appendix A: Forecasting public finances Appendix B: How to classify the government's credits Appendix C: Budgets since 1979 Appendix D: Headline tax and benefit rates and thresholds Appendix E: Tax revenues ready reckoner

© The Institute for Fiscal Studies, January 2001
ISBN 1-903274-24-9