 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
Mike Brewer, Richard May and David Phillips, October 2009,
Taxes, benefits and the national minimum wage,
External publications
Mike Brewer, Alastair Muriel, David Phillips and Luke Sibieta, May 2009,
Poverty and inequality in the UK: 2009,
IFS Reports
, C109
, 978-1-903274-60-6
Press release:
Mike Brewer, Alastair Muriel, David Phillips and Luke Sibieta, May 2009,
Income inequality hit record high before the recession started,
IFS Press Releases
Mike Brewer, Alastair Muriel, David Phillips and Luke Sibieta, May 2009,
Income inequality hit record high before the recession started,
IFS Press Releases
Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Alastair Muriel, Cormac O'Dea, Gillian Paull, David Phillips and Luke Sibieta, March 2009,
Response of IFS researchers to child poverty consultation,
Mimeos
Thomas F Crossley, David Phillips and Matthew Wakefield, January 2009,
Value Added Tax,
Book Chapters
Mike Brewer, James Browne and David Phillips, December 2008,
The distributional effect of the 2008 Pre-Budget Report,
IFS Briefing Notes
, BN80
Stuart Adam, Mike Brewer, James Browne, Alastair Muriel, David Phillips and Luke Sibieta, November 2008,
Inequality and poverty, measuring resources and well-being, and taxes, benefits and the income distribution,
Presentations
Mike Brewer, James Browne and David Phillips, September 2008,
Options for Tax Credit reform,
Report Summaries
Orazio Attanasio, Luca Pellerano and David Phillips, September 2008,
Peace and goodwill? Using an experimental game to analyse Paz y Desarrollo,
IFS Working Papers
, EWP08/03
New version:
Orazio Attanasio, Luca Pellerano and David Phillips, October 2009,
Peace and goodwill? Using an experimental game to analyse the Desarrollo y Paz initiative in Colombia,
IFS Working Papers
, W09/20
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