Options for increasing tax

Understand this issue

The big challenges facing the benefits system

podcast

Can the rising costs of benefits be managed and what changes could improve the system?

10 September 2024

How could the Chancellor raise more tax?

podcast

What options does the Chancellor have for raising taxes in the October Budget?

28 August 2024

There are good reasons to reverse the two-child limit

comment

"The two-child limit has been pretty much laser-focused on increasing the measured rate of child poverty." Paul Johnson writes for the Times.

22 July 2024

Policy analysis

Lower oil and gas prices hit Scotland’s underlying public finances in 2023-24

comment

Scotland’s notional fiscal deficit rose by £4.7 billion (2% of GDP) in 2023–24, as lower oil and gas prices hit North Sea revenues.

14 August 2024

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2024

report

How do rising mortgage rates and differential inflation affect incomes and poverty? How have incomes and poverty changed for pensioners?

25 July 2024

320,000 people pushed into poverty because of mortgage interest rate rises

press release

"Poverty statistics that hide the real scale of increases risk policymakers missing what is truly happening to poverty."

25 July 2024

Academic research

Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition

journal article

Our identification and application show that the analysis of social interactions can be extended to economic realms where no network data exists.

9 September 2024

Focal pricing and pass-through

working paper

I show that the adoption and extent of focal pricing practices in an industry in general do not lower average pass-through of input cost changes.

21 August 2024

Very weak income growth for poor pensioners has meant rising pensioner poverty since 2011

press release

This report examines the key trends in pensioner incomes and poverty over the past two decades.

19 July 2024