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After each Autumn Statement, Budget and Spending Review, we publish analysis of the Chancellor's proposals and reforms.
Chancellor George Osborne delivered his last Budget of this parliament on Wednesday 18 March. The following day, on Thursday 19 March, the Institute for Fiscal Studies held a lunchtime briefing. The presentations from IFS researchers are available here:
- Paul Johnson: Opening remarks
- Gemma Tetlow: The end (of austerity) is nigh?
- Soumaya Keynes: Public services spending
- Stuart Adam: Pensions, savings and business taxation
- Robert Joyce: Household incomes: trends and the impact of tax and benefit changes
- Additional distributional analysis by James Browne and William Elming
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