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The Schools Bill: what's changing and why?
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<p class="p1">The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work?</p>
11 March 2025
Family values: inheritance, inequality and social mobility
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<p><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;">Wealth concentration among baby boomers and stagnant earnings are driving the rise of the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, affecting social mobility.</span></p>
3 March 2025
How important is the OBR forecast?
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<p>The OBR forecast will underpin the Chancellor’s decisions at the next Spring Forecast.</p>
12 February 2025
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Spring Forecast 2025: IFS analysis
event 27 March 2025
<p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(37, 61, 64);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"DM Serif Text", serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">At this online event IFS researchers will present their initial analysis of the Chancellor's Spring Forecast.</span></p>
How can people be better helped to draw on their pension wealth in retirement?
event 1 April 2025
<p><span data-teams="true">This online event will present new analysis of the way in which defined contribution pension wealth is currently being accessed.</span></p>
IFS residential conference 2025: How do we build a business tax system for the 21st century?
conference 3 April 2025
<p>This conference, in association with <a href="https://www.deloitte.co.uk">Deloitte</a>, will discuss the UK business tax system in the context of the new Corporate Tax Roadmap.</p>
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Election 2024

What is the conspiracy of silence surrounding choices facing the next government?

Paul Johnson

Published on 4 June 2024

Paul Johnson, Director of IFS, explains how neither of the two main parties are addressing the big problems they would face after the general election

📺 In @ITV leaders' debate last night @julie_etch put to the leaders that we have said the parties were joining in a 'conspiracy of silence' on the trade-offs and choices that face the next government.

What do we mean by that? @PJTheEconomist explains pic.twitter.com/w1CAap0LuB
— Institute for Fiscal Studies (@TheIFS) June 5, 2024

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Paul Johnson

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Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.