<p>Alistair Darling would need to announce fresh tax increases worth about £8 billion in this year's Budget to keep public sector debt below the Government's self-imposed ceiling and to bring about the improvement in the public finances over the next five years that the Treasury wants to see, according to this year's IFS Green Budget.</p>
Authors
Deputy Director
Carl, a Deputy Director, is an editor of the IFS Green Budget, is expert on the UK pension system and sits on the Social Security Advisory Committee.
Robert Chote
Research Fellow Financial Conduct Authority
Jonathan is a Research Fellow at the IFS and a Technical Specialist in the Economics Department at the Financial Conduct Authority.
David Miles
Press Release details
- Publisher
- IFS
More from IFS
Understand this issue
IFS Deputy Director Carl Emmerson made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
4 March 2024
Statement on Alistair Darling's passing
4 December 2023
IFS contributor Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize in economics
9 October 2023
Policy analysis
Sure Start greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results
9 April 2024
Gap between higher- and lower-paid public sector workers falls by more than a third since 2007 as doctors and experienced teachers have faced unprecedented pay cuts
26 March 2024
Sliding education results and high inequalities should prompt big rethink in Welsh education policy
21 March 2024
Academic research
Itay Saporta Eksten visits IFS
31 January 2024
IFS co-organises Paris-London Public Economics Conference 2023
24 November 2023
Imran Rasul elected as EEA Vice-President
21 November 2023