In this Briefing Note, we attempt to model the full impact of tax and benefit changes in the Budget, including additional benefit cuts, on different income and expenditure groups.

This presentation was given to a 'Citizens' Jury' run by BritainThinks and PriceWaterhouseCoopers on 16 July 2010 at the University of Warwick.

Now that the Office for Budget Responsibility has delivered its judgement that the structural hole in the public finances is slightly larger than Alistair Darling claimed in his final Budget in March, attention turns to how George Osborne might go about filling it in his first Budget next week.

The newly created independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has published its first set of official forecasts for the economy and the public finances. Here are some initial thoughts from Robert Chote, Rowena Crawford, Carl Emmerson and Gemma Tetlow on some of the issues raised by the report.

This presentation was given at the IFS post-Budget briefing on 25th March 2010.

This presentation was given at the IFS post-Budget briefing on 25th March 2010.

This presentation was given at the IFS post-Budget briefing on 25th March 2010.

This presentation was given at the IFS post-Budget briefing on 25th March 2010.

As the Government and Opposition alike ponder how best to repair Britain's battered public finances, the Green Budget looks at some of the salient economic issues.