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, January 2013,
The pensions bill has policy lessons for us all,
Guardian,
Newspaper Articles
Andrew Hood, Paul Johnson and Robert Joyce, January 2013,
The Effects of the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill,
Observations
Paul Johnson, December 2012,
What is wrong with tax policy making?,
Tax Journal,
Issue 1151; p.11,
Tax Journal,
Journal Articles
Paul Johnson, December 2012,
'Shares for rights' will foster tax avoidance,
Financial Times,
Newspaper Articles
Andrew Hood and Paul Johnson, December 2012,
70th anniversary of the Beveridge report: where now for welfare?,
Observations
Paul Johnson and Andrew Hood, December 2012,
It's time to bin the last vestige of Beveridge- national insurance,
Independent on Sunday,
Newspaper Articles
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