Green Budget 2013: Corporate tax, revenues and avoidance

Understand this issue

Should we worry about government debt?

podcast

David Miles joins us to discuss high government debt and its impact on the economy.

11 April 2024

Public investment: what you need to know

explainer

Everything you wanted to know about UK public investment but were too afraid to ask – including analysis of Labour and Conservative plans.

25 April 2024

The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government

podcast

We speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.

25 April 2024

Policy analysis

Recent trends in and the outlook for health-related benefits

report

Recipients of and spending on health-related benefits have risen rapidly since the start of the pandemic, posing a serious challenge for policymakers.

19 April 2024

The past and future of UK health spending

report

How has health spending changed over the past seven decades? How does the UK compare to other countries? What is the outlook for health spending?

14 May 2024

NHS spending has risen less quickly than was planned at the last election, despite the pandemic and record waiting lists

press release

Despite a pandemic, record waiting lists and growing rates of ill health, real-terms health spending has risen less quickly than was planned.

14 May 2024

Academic research

Fiscal Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1

journal issue

Fiscal Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1: Symposium: the global minimum tax

20 March 2023

Empirical evidence on the global minimum tax: What is a critical mass and how large is the substance-based income exclusion?

journal article

This paper presents empirical evidence on the proposed global minimum tax (GMT) of the OECD's Pillar 2.

20 March 2023

Do work search requirements work? Evidence from a UK reform targeting single parents

working paper

We assess whether work search requirements for out-of-work welfare claimants are effective in inducing individuals to work & delivering fiscal savings

1 February 2023