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Election Special: What you need to know
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In our first election special, we look at the broad economic picture and analyse announcements about the fiscal rules, the triple lock and tax.
28 May 2024
How to grow the economy
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With an election on the way, economic growth is bound to be central to the campaigns. A leading expert explains how we can grow the economy.
24 May 2024
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Our interactive tool lets you be the Chancellor. Change spending plans, set tax policies and see how your choices impact borrowing and debt.
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workshop 24 May 2024
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IFS-CAGE workshop on the economics of mental health
workshop 18 June 2024
The IFS and CAGE Research Centre (University of Warwick) are co-organising a workshop on the economics of mental health.
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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

Freeports and Investment Zones – what sorts of things should we consider when assessing whether they are good policy?

Comment

We discuss the economic issues central to whether Freeports and Investment Zones are a good idea.

10 March 2023

Freeports: What are they? What do we know? And what will we know?

Report

This report analyses the rationale for Freeports and what we can learn about their potential impact from past policies and a planned evaluation.

10 March 2023

Are high energy prices here to stay?

Podcast

As we leave winter and enter spring, we ask whether high energy prices are here to stay

8 March 2023

The fiscal backdrop to Spring Budget 2023

Comment

How might recent economic developments affect the outlook for the public finances, and what does this mean for the Chancellor’s options at the Budget?

28 February 2023

Public finances may be improving, but personal circumstances certainly are not

Comment

"Don’t be lulled into thinking we have reached the bottom of hole into which living standards have been sliding. We almost certainly haven’t."

27 February 2023

Scottish Budget 2023–24: further analysis

Report

The aim of this report is to look at some of the key implications of the Scottish Budget for the coming year, and for the longer term.

17 February 2023

Scottish Budget 2023–24

Collection

Read all our analysis of the Scottish Budget for 2023–24.

14 February 2023

Analysis of Scottish tax and benefit reforms

Report

We analyse the impact of changes to devolved income tax rates and bands and benefits, and show the total impact of the changes.

9 February 2023

Council and school funding

Report

After health, funding for Scottish councils is the second largest item in the Scottish Government’s Budget.

3 February 2023

Income tax performance

Report

This chapter looks at what we know about why Scotland’s tax base has grown more slowly so far since devolution.

26 January 2023

The overall funding outlook

Report

This chapter looks at the Scottish government's funding outlook in the short term (2022–23 and 2023–24), medium term (2024–25 to 2027–28) and beyond.

26 January 2023

Strikes, Budgets, Brexit and elections: a look ahead to 2023

Podcast

The IFS podcast returns with a look at what to expect in 2023.

11 January 2023

The economic and fiscal outlook: modelling the impact on local government

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Slides from David Phillips and Kate Ogden's presentation at the 2023 LGA Annual Local Government Finance Conference.

11 January 2023

A monetary-fiscal theory of sudden inflations

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This paper posits an information channel as the explanation for sudden inflations.

20 December 2022

English councils’ core spending power is set to grow by up to 11% in real-terms over the next two years

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The local government finance policy statement confirms a boost to councils’ funding over the next two years, targeted at social care and poorer areas.

16 December 2022