Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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Andrew Dilnot is a former Director of IFS. He joined the Institute in 1981, and in the first half of the 1980s wrote the Institute's computer model of the tax and benefit system. He was Director of IFS between 1991 and 2002. His main research interests lie in general government taxation and public spending policies, and in the impact of taxation and spending on incomes and behaviour. He has taught at a number of universities in the UK and overseas. From 1991 to 2002 he edited the annual IFS assessment of the Chancellor's options for the Budget, the IFS Green Budget. He is a Presenter of BBC Radio 4's Analysis Programme and their new numbers programme, More or Less, and a regular contributor to other broadcast and printed media. He is a member of the Social Security Advisory Committee, and the government's Evidence Based Policy Panel, has served on many committees of inquiry, and on the Councils of the Royal Economic Society and Queen Mary and Westfield College. He was awarded a CBE in 2000 for services to economics and economic policy.
All available publications
Andrew W Dilnot, December 2012,
Numbers and Public Policy: The Power of Official Statistics and Statistical Communication in Public Policymaking,
Fiscal Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4. December 2012,
Vol. 33, No.4, pp. 429-448,
Blackwell Publishing,
Journal Articles
Andrew W Dilnot and Carl Emmerson, July 2002,
There are losers as well as winners in these plans,
Independent,
Newspaper Articles
Tom Clark and Andrew W Dilnot, June 2002,
Measuring UK fiscal stance since the Second World War,
IFS Briefing Notes
, BN26
Tom Clark and Andrew W Dilnot, June 2002,
Long-term trends in British taxation and spending,
IFS Briefing Notes
, BN25
Andrew W Dilnot and Carl Emmerson, February 2002,
Higher taxes seem the only option for increased spending,
Independent,
Newspaper Articles
Andrew W Dilnot, Carl Emmerson and Helen Simpson (eds), January 2002,
IFS Green Budget 2002,
IFS Reports
, C087
, 978-1-903274-24-8
Press release:
January 2002,
IFS Green Budget 2002,
IFS Press Releases
Andrew W Dilnot and Carl Emmerson, November 2001,
Bold commitments offer very little for companies,
Financial Times,
Newspaper Articles
Andrew W Dilnot and Carl Emmerson, October 2001,
The crunch may not be soon, but it may still be painful, Mr Brown.,
Independent,
Newspaper Articles
Tom Clark and Andrew W Dilnot, January 2001,
Q, Have taxes risen under Labour? A, Well, it depends who's asking,
Independent,
Newspaper Articles
Andrew W Dilnot, Carl Emmerson and Helen Simpson (eds), January 2001,
The IFS Green Budget: January 2001,
IFS Reports
, C083
, 978-1-903274-00-2
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