This note starts with a summary of tax reforms since 1997. This is followed by an assessment of the overall effect of these changes on the tax burden faced by businesses and on government revenues. The note concludes with a discussion of future trends in

In this note we look at policy relating to productivity since 1997 and at the parties' policies in this area.

This note looks at the changes in employment and Labour's policies since 1997 and review the proposals of the three main parties in this area.

This Briefing Note assesses the government's management of the public finances since 1997, judged against the rules it set itself to constrain public sector borrowing and debt, and against the performance of other industrial countries over the same period. It then discusses how the public finances might evolve given the tax and spending policies of the three main parties, as well as their proposals to reform the framework in which the public finances are managed.

This Briefing Note examines the evolution of the tax burden over the last 50 years. It then looks at the proposals in the parties' manifestos.

This note looks at the distributional impact of changes to the tax and benefit system since 1997.

The Conservatives have announced that, if elected, they would cut taxes by £4.0 billion in 2007�08. Of this they have allocated £1.7 billion to increasing support for individual contributions to private funded pension schemes where these contributions attract relief at the basic rate of income tax.

Last week's budget was probably the last before the next general election.

Higher taxes on north sea oil companies and a package of tax avoidance measures helped the Chancellor pay for pre-election give-aways for his favoured groups, parents and pensioners, and to offer help to homebuyers and motorists.