 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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David is a Senior Research Economist, currently working in the Direct Tax and Welfare sector and the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policy (EDePo@IFS). Most of David's work is arranged around the broad themes of poverty, inequality and the tax and benefit system and includes projects both in the UK and in middle income countries. Recent projects include analysis of the distributional and behavioural impacts of tax reforms in Mexico and El Salvador for the World Bank; an evaluation of the EU VAT system; and validating official UK income and poverty statistics.He is also working with Magali Beffy, Guy Laroque and Costas Meghir on models of famil labour supply, a piece of work that has grown out of his work for the Mirrlees Review. More recent research interests include local government spending and the analysis of fiscal issues in the devolved nations of the UK. He also has experience analysing social capital, human capital and consumer demand.
All available publications
David Phillips, June 2012,
Analysing tax and social security policy: examples from Mexico and the UK,
Presentations
Jonathan Cribb, Robert Joyce and David Phillips, June 2012,
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2012,
IFS Reports
, C124
, 978-1-903274-90-3
Press release:
Jonathan Cribb, Robert Joyce and David Phillips, June 2012,
Average private incomes fall over 7% in the three years to 2010-11 ,
IFS Press Releases
Jonathan Cribb, Robert Joyce and David Phillips, June 2012,
Average private incomes fall over 7% in the three years to 2010-11 ,
IFS Press Releases
Paul Johnson, Robert Joyce and David Phillips, June 2012,
Measuring and addressing child poverty,
Observations
Jonathan Cribb, Robert Joyce and David Phillips, June 2012,
Biggest one-year fall in middle incomes since 1981,
IFS Press Releases
David Phillips, May 2012,
Analysing tax and pension policy: Examples from Latin America,
Presentations
Rowena Crawford and David Phillips, February 2012,
Local government spending: where is the axe falling? ,
in The IFS Green Budget: February 2012
Book Chapters
David Phillips, December 2011,
Reforming VAT: a promising proposal, but much more still to be done,
Observations
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