Widespread cuts in tax mean Chancellor offers something for everyone: losers are scarce

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Reforms could be enacted to make inheritance tax fairer and raise revenue.

18 April 2024

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"We know that poor children grow up with poor life chances. We know how to ameliorate that. The choice is ours." Paul Johnson writes for the Times.

15 April 2024

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David Miles joins us to discuss high government debt and its impact on the economy.

11 April 2024

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This comment looks at who will be eligible for free childcare, whether funding is high enough and what impact the new entitlements might have.

28 March 2024

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A fallback in oil and gas prices has hit Scotland’s underlying public finance position this year.

27 March 2024

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Day-to-day spending on health in England is planned to fall in 2024–25 compared with the latest budgets for 2023–24.

4 March 2024

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Where community interventions lead to behaviour change, continued interactions are needed to help people maintain healthy behaviours.

27 January 2023

conference 26 September 2024

We invite researchers from both academic and policy institutions to submit a paper or an extended abstract of two or more pages by April.

workshop 4 July 2024 at 09:00

This academic workshop on applied public and labour economics will feature presentations by alumni of the IFS postdoc scheme.