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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Paul Johnson is Director of the IFS. Formerly, Paul was a Research Fellow at IFS and an Associate of Frontier Economics. From 2004 to 2007 he was director of the public services and growth directorate and Chief micro-economist at HM Treasury, as well as deputy head of the Government Economic Service. He previously worked in senior posts at the Department for Education and Skills and the Financial Services Authority. Until 1998 he was a full-time researcher at IFS, eventually taking on the roles of deputy director and head of the personal sector research programme.
All available publications
Paul Johnson, March 2013,
All in all, it has been an equitable recession,
Scotsman,
Newspaper Articles
Paul Johnson, February 2013,
Better Budgets: making tax policy work,
IFS Briefing Notes
, BN137 , Institute for Fiscal Studies
, 978-1-909463-03-5
James Browne, Paul Johnson and Barra Roantree, February 2013,
Better options exist to help low earners than 10p tax rate,
Observations
Carl Emmerson, Paul Johnson and Helen Miller (eds), February 2013,
IFS Green Budget: February 2013,
IFS Reports
, R74 , Institute for Fiscal Studies
Press release:
February 2013,
Borrowing to take the strain until the election. More pain on spending, jobs and, recent history suggests, tax after the election,
IFS Press Releases
James Browne, Andrew Hood and Paul Johnson, February 2013,
Green Budget 2013: Options for cutting spending on social security,
Book Chapters
Stuart Adam, James Browne and Paul Johnson, February 2013,
Will local control of council tax benefits work?,
External publications
, Society Central Blog, University of Essex
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