Events

Dame Angela Eagle MP and leading experts in tax will discuss whether the UK should make more use of taxes on wealth. Even if the overall tax take doesn’t rise, should more be raised from wealth for distributional reasons? And, if we are to tax wealth more, should this be achieved by reforming current taxes, such as those on property, capital gains and inheritances?

At this event, we will present new work undertaken for the ground-breaking IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, examining people’s attitudes towards inequalities and how these fit with different traditions of philosophical thought on the topic.

This is the third in a series of online events looking in detail at the three major economic challenges identified by the Tirole-Blanchard Commission, featuring presentations by Axel Börsch-Supan, Claudia Diehl, and Carol Propper.

We’re pleased to announce that Nobel laureate Professor Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics, will give the 2021 IFS Annual Lecture on economics for the common good after Covid.

This is the second in a series of online events looking in detail at the three major economic challenges identified by the Tirole-Blanchard Commission, featuring presentations by Christian Gollier and Mar Reguant.

This is the first in a series of online events looking in detail at the three major economic challenges identified by the Tirole-Blanchard Commission, featuring presentations by Stefanie Stantcheva and Dani Rodrik.

In this event, IFS researchers will present new research shedding light on why the children of wealthy parents accumulate more wealth than their peers from poorer backgrounds, and what channels are involved in the persistence of wealth from one generation to the next.

At this event, Professors Olivier Blanchard and Jean Tirole will present the main findings from their commission's recent report into three major economic challenges: climate change, economic inequalities, and demographic changes.

At this event, IFS researchers will present the key findings from their latest flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

The uneven roll-out of vaccines around the world means that the health and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be particularly challenging for low-and middle-income countries, including those in Africa, over the next 18 months. At this event, researchers will present work which considers the fiscal and tax policy challenges and opportunities facing countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Our annual event for IFS members will take place online this year, giving our supporters an exclusive insight into the work going on behind the scenes at the institute and providing an opportunity to ask questions directly to senior researchers.

The ‘gig economy’ has grown and risen up the policy agenda in recent years. The associated growth in people working through their own businesses and in work happening through platforms highlights difficult questions about when to have boundaries in the tax system and where to put them.

At this event, featuring a speech by the Minister for Employment, IFS researchers will present their findings from a new report that seeks to shed new light on the working lives of people in their 50s and 60s, and discuss the key implications for the future.

When should people save for retirement, given factors like earnings growth and children, and do individuals change their saving as they age in practice? What are the implications for automatic enrolment and pensions policy going forwards?

A virtual conference on public economics will take place on the afternoons of 6th and 7th May, featuring a keynote address by Michael Greenstone.

Rising levels of wealth held by older generations, alongside slow growth in the earnings of younger generations, means that inheritance looks set to be an increasingly important source of income for today's working-age generations.

This year, for the first time and co-funded by the Scottish Policy Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies is publishing a range of Scottish Election Briefing Notes on tax, benefits and public spending, and the parties plans for the coming parliamentary term. Join us for our live webinar, in partnership with the University of Glasgow, where we will present the main findings of our analysis ahead of the election.

After decades of cuts to the corporation tax rate, a large reversal is now planned. Is this the right move? What effects will it have? Will it hurt investment or make us uncompetitive? Will it hit some sectors harder than others?

Sanitation gaps are a global problem that continue to affect large segments of developing Asia and the Pacific, despite the considerable progress of efforts to address it in recent decades. The COVID-19 crisis has further increased the importance of improving inclusive sanitation access and the lives of targeted users, especially across poor areas and vulnerable groups.

The Spring 2021 Budget will be the first one since the UK entered a series of lockdowns and Great Britain left the EU's Single Market and Customs Union. IFS researchers will present their initial analysis of the Chancellor's announcements on the public finances, spending on public services, and the tax and the benefit system on the following day, Thursday 4 March, at an online briefing.