 Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
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Research in this area aims to understand the behaviour of consumers - their choice of which goods and services to purchase, the sensitivity of their decisions to changes in prices, the interdependence of decisions made by firms and those made by consumers and the implications of all these factors for government policy and for the wider economy.
Past research at the IFS has made substantial contributions to the understanding of these topics. Ongoing areas of interest include household consumption and how it changes over the lifecycle; the modelling of demand; behavioural economics and rationality; the measurement of consumption and expenditure; consumer and firm behaviour in the food market; the construction of price indices and the distributional impact of inflation. Search
Richard Blundell, Panis Pashardes and Guglielmo Weber
The aim of this paper is to assess the importance of using micro-level data in the econometric analysis of consumer demand.
Ian Crawford, Ian Crawford, Stephen Smith, Stephen Smith, Steven Webb and Steven Webb
This paper considers the impact on households of imposing VAT on domestic energy, and the extent to which the social security system will safeguard poorer households against the additional tax burden.
Alessi, R, Michael P Devereux and Guglielmo Weber
A survey of the main issues involved in using equivalence scales to estimate the costs of children for policy purposes: the authors estimate a range of scales for the UK and examine the impact of varying scales on official statistics.
Vanessa Brechling and Stephen Smith
This commentary attempts to analyse the decision by households to invest in energy efficiency measures using the tools of microeconomic analysis.
Paul Baker and Vanessa Brechling
The annual exercise of revising excise duties has become part of Budget Day tradition.
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   An IFS research fellow is leading an independent review into how to make automatic enrolment into workplace pensions operate best.
IFS researchers develop a model of the Mexican tax system that will be used by the Mexican Government analysts.
IFS researchers have evaluated whether the temporary VAT cut was able to boost the economy effectively.
IFS researchers present and discuss new research on retirement saving with a group of business leaders and policy makers.
IFS researchers have monitored the extent to which some households experience higher rates of inflation than others.
In light of Government objectives to increase environmental taxation, we investigate whether the UK tax system is becoming more or less ‘green’.
Government departments used IFS research to inform decision-marking about a temporary cut in VAT.
IFS researchers found that the Saving Gateway was not the best way to support lower income families; government acted on this advice.
Methods developed at IFS for measuring wealth were instrumental in establishing a detailed government dataset about assets and debt in Britain.
In a tough economic climate IFS looks at how households are able to cope.
IFS researchers have investigated whether it is possible to measure the distributional impact of changes to spending on public services.
IFS researchers have investigated the relative merits of government policies designed to protect elderly households from the coldest winters.
IFS researchers suggest that a minimum price for alcohol could have a big impact.
IFS develops data on food prices and nutrition to build capacity for policy-relevant social science research.
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