The IFS Green Budget 2008 will analyse the issues and challenges facing Alistair Darling as he prepares for his first Budget as Chancellor. It will be published in collaboration with Morgan Stanley.

Speakers will include Robert Chote (Director, IFS), David Miles (Morgan Stanley Chief UK Economist), Carl Emmerson (Deputy Director, IFS) and Laurence Mutkin (Fixed Income Strategist, Morgan Stanley).

Topics for discussion will include:

• the prospects for meeting the Treasury's fiscal rules
• the macroeconomic outlook and the risks to the Treasury's projections
• the impact of financial market conditions on the effectiveness of monetary policy
• optimal debt management
• public sector pay and other pressures on public spending
• developments in the taxation of domestic and foreign corporate profits
• capital gains tax reform
• design issues for the proposed new tax on flights
• distributional impact of reforms to be implemented in April 2008

Places at this conference are strictly limited. To reserve your place, please email Bonnie Brimstone with the names, organisation and contact details of each delegate.

The Green Budget Report will be sent to IFS members and will be available to delegates at this conference.