Gordon Brown's sixth budget,and his first of the new parliament, combines rises in the overall tax burden that fall principally on the better-off with a significant increase in generosity of support for families with children - both working and non-working.
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Research Fellow University College London
Alissa is an IFS Research Fellow and a Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the UCL Institute of Education.
Howard Reed
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Goodman, A and Reed, H. (2002). Families first as better-off pay the bill for a more equitable society [Comment] IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/articles/families-first-better-pay-bill-more-equitable-society (accessed: 1 July 2024).
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