A central part of the IFS’s contribution to public debate is our analysis of the distributional effect of taxes and benefits, both following Budgets and in wider research. Using large household datasets together with a model of the personal tax and benefit system, IFS researchers evaluate tax and benefit changes on households across the income distribution. Recent research has begun to consider the distributional effect of policies on the basis of lifetime income, rather than annual or monthly income.
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