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Fiscal Facts
Fiscal Facts is a collection of tables and descriptive papers about the tax and benefit system and the public finances. Funded by the ESRC Centre for Public Policy at IFS, the documentation is available online as a free resource and is updated every year in line with Budgetary changes.

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