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Should we worry about government debt? podcastDavid Miles joins us to discuss high government debt and its impact on the economy. 11 April 2024
The Spring Budget 2024 explained in 90 seconds explainerIFS Director Paul Johnson gives an initial response to Jeremy Hunt's Spring Budget.6 March 2024
IFS Annual Lecture - Innovation and productivity policies: a budgetary perspective event 15 May 2024 Professor Heidi Williams (Dartmouth College) will deliver the 2024 IFS Annual Lecture on innovation and productivity policies.
Higher Education Access and Funding: challenges and policy options conference 14 May 2024 This one-day academic conference will look at access to and funding of Higher Education systems.
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy landing pageThe ESRC has funded a research centre at IFS since 1991, recognised as a global centre of excellence and now with UKRI Research Institute status.15 July 2022
Jobs landing pageAt IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We aim to foster a respectful and inclusive working environment.20 July 2022
Labour's windfall levy Lucy Chennells Published on 1 April 1997 This commentary discusses the background to the policy, presents the economic arguments for and against the levy, and examines some of the issues about how the levy might actually operate in practice. Taxes and benefits Government finances and spending Corporate taxes
The Spring Budget explained podcast We provide our analysis on the Chancellor's Spring Budget. 16 March 2023
Taxes could be cut within broader reforms comment "The Chancellor doesn’t need to wait for fiscal headroom to reform public finances" says Helen Miller in The Telegraph. 2 November 2023
At last, we are back to a normal budget, but don’t expect many treats comment "A stagnant economy leaves little room for either more spending or less tax." Paul Johnson writes for the Times ahead of Wednesday's Spring Budget. 13 March 2023
Tax and public finances: the fundamentals report This report highlights 10 key facts about UK tax and public finance policy that will underpin the choices faced by governments in coming decades. 23 August 2023
Full expensing and the corporation tax base report This report discusses the temporary full-expensing policy and whether it should be made a permanent part of the corporate tax base. 6 October 2023
Long-term costs of full expensing much lower than official estimates suggest press release A new report discusses the temporary full-expensing policy and whether it should be made a permanent part of the corporate tax base. 6 October 2023
Fiscal Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1 journal issue Fiscal Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1: Symposium: the global minimum tax 20 March 2023
Empirical evidence on the global minimum tax: What is a critical mass and how large is the substance-based income exclusion? journal article This paper presents empirical evidence on the proposed global minimum tax (GMT) of the OECD's Pillar 2. 20 March 2023
Identifying network ties from panel data: theory and an application to tax competition working paper We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between agents. 18 January 2023
