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| 16 Jul 2008 |
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Longitudinal study of ageing shows extended working lives and health and wealth relationship |
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The poorest older people are more than twice as likely to die at any given age than the richest. |
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| 14 Jul 2008 |
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Summer birth penalty persists into Higher Education |
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| 10 Jul 2008 |
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Don't expect much extra revenue from green taxes, says study prepared for the Mirrlees Review |
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| 08 Jul 2008 |
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Allow social landlords to buy unsellable houses, says Cable |
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| 11 Jun 2008 |
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London and West Midlands suffer highest rates of poverty in the UK |
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London and the West Midlands displace North-East England and Northern Ireland as the regions of the UK with the highest rates of poverty when we take account of differences in the cost of living around the country, according to Poverty and Inequality in the UK 2008. |
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| 10 Jun 2008 |
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Poverty and inequality rise again as benefit payments lag inflation and incomes grow fastest for the rich |
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Poverty and inequality both increased for a second successive year during 2006-07, as benefit and tax credit increases failed to keep pace with rising inflation, and as the richest households enjoyed the biggest increases in income, according to official statistics released today. |
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| 10 Jun 2008 |
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Local authorities divert school funding for disadvantaged pupils |
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Local authorities in England allocate only around half the extra resources that Whitehall pays them to educate children from disadvantaged backgrounds to the schools that those children actually attend, according to a new study by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. |
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| 05 Jun 2008 |
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Globalisation demands reform of UK corporation tax, say studies prepared for the Mirrlees Review |
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| 21 May 2008 |
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18 million families set to lose if 'one-off' giveaways not extended |
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We look at the long-term impact of the recent changes to the tax and benefit system. |
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| 21 Apr 2008 |
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Abolition of the 10p starting rate |
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Robert Chote looks at the consequences of the aboliation of the 10p starting rate. |
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| 21 Apr 2008 |
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Taxes and the location of corporate headquarters |
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Papers on the location of company headquarters are presented a joint conference with the European Tax Policy Forum. |
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| 21 Apr 2008 |
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Reform tax credits to boost weak work incentives, says study prepared for the Mirrlees Review |
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Britain's tax credit and benefit system should be overhauled to strengthen work incentives for people on low incomes, to increase simplicity and certainty for families, and to reduce fraud and administration costs for the taxpayer, according to a study commissioned by the Mirrlees Review of the British tax system. |
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| 12 Mar 2008 |
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Immediate Budget Analysis |
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As an immediate reaction to the Budget, we look at the public finances and at measures directly affecting households. |
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| 30 Jan 2008 |
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IFS Green Budget 2008 |
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Analysis of the options for the Chancellor's forthcoming Budget. |
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| 17 Jan 2008 |
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High Income Individuals: Racing Away? |
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The outlook for inequality in Britain may depend more on the outlook for the stock market than on Government tax and benefit policies, a study by IFS researchers suggests today. |
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