Tom Crossley is a Research Fellow at IFS and a Research Professor for the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
He was previously director of the consumption and saving research sector at IFS. His research interests are Household behaviour, financial security, living standards, the design and collection and analysis of survey data.
This paper analyses the likely implications of the temporary cut in VAT in the UK to 15 per cent, with a return to 17.5 per cent in place for the end of 2009.
This presentation was given on 18th March 2009, at Tilburg University and on January 5th 2009, at the American Economic Association Annual Meetings in San Francisco.
