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Research into saving and wealth looks at the evidence we can find in data about UK households as to how much wealth people hold and what kinds of assets they have. We ask what official data tell us about savings and debt amongst different groups and look at trends in asset ownership across time.
We also examine how savings and wealth are taxed in the UK. What is the impact of taxes on savings behaviour? What are the prospects for the Individual Savings Account? What justifications are there for asset-based welfare? What are the rationales behind the government's planned Child Trust Fund and Saving Gateway? Search
This presentation was delivered on November 23rd at University College Dublin.
Garry Barrett, Thomas F Crossley and Kevin Milligan
This presentation was given at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Summer Institute 2010.
Most families accumulated very little liquid wealth between 2000 and 2005 according to new research published today by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and funded by the IFS Retirement Saving Consortium.
Considerable variation in the amount of wealth that households hold and how they hold it means that some will have been more exposed to falling asset prices during 2008 and 2009 than others. We estimate that the best off will have lost most.
A new report, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), provides background analysis and context to aid interpretation of data on the distribution of wealth in Great Britain available from the first wave of the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS).
This report looks at the level of wealth and the rate of saving of households in the UK on the eve of the global economic crisis.
Robert Chote
In this article we look at past and possible future reforms to Capital Gains Tax.
Dimensions of Tax Design brings together a high-profile group of more than fifty international experts and younger researchers.
Robin Boadway, Emma Chamberlain and Carl Emmerson
Dimensions of Tax Design brings together a high-profile group of more than fifty international experts and younger researchers.
part of set of IFS analysis presented at DWP research seminar on the dynamics of work, health savings and retirement
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 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.
IFS researchers present and discuss new research on retirement saving with a group of business leaders and policy makers.
An IFS research fellow is leading an independent review into how to make automatic enrolment into workplace pensions operate best.
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