The Chancellor is due to deliver his first Budget, the first of this parliament, and the first since Autumn 2018, on Wednesday 11 March. Its contents could be the most fiscally important for years, as the new Government sets out its tax and spending plans for the coming parliament. Two weeks ahead of this, IFS researchers – in an event funded by the Economic and Social Research Council – will set out their latest assessment of the fiscal constraints within which the Chancellor is operating and will assess his options. We will analyse:
- Constraints placed by the Government’s new fiscal targets
- Outlook for the 2020 Spending Review
- Tax policy options
- Differential impact of potential UK-EU trade arrangements
- Regional inequalities in living standards and public investment
This event will be chaired by IFS Director Paul Johnson, and there will be plenty of time for questions at the end.
Speakers
Isabel Stockton
Isabel works in the Healthcare sector, and on the public finances. Their research focuses on retaining and developing the NHS workforce.
Ben Zaranko
Ben is a Senior Research Economist and an editor of the IFS Green Budget. His work focuses on the health and social care system and UK fiscal policy.
Stuart Adam
Stuart is a Senior Economist working in the Tax sector, and focuses on analysing the design of the tax and benefit system.
Peter Levell
Peter joined in 2009. He has published several papers on the microeconomics of household spending and labour supply decisions over the life-cycle.
David Phillips
David is Head of Devolved and Local Government Finance. He also works on tax in developing countries as part of our TaxDev centre.
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