Options for reducing spending on social security

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How to reduce child poverty: compare the policy options

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Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time across different groups.

3 October 2024

It’s time to be honest about the funding of social care

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The fury about ending the winter fuel allowance is a diversion from a much important issue: our failing social care system.

16 September 2024

Should the Chancellor raise capital gains tax?

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We explore why CGT reform is necessary and how changes could make the tax system fairer, more efficient and more growth-friendly.

9 October 2024

Policy analysis

Green Budget 2024: Full report

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The new Chancellor faces a difficult fiscal inheritance. Her choices on tax and spending at this first Budget could define the rest of the parliament.

10 October 2024

Options for the 2024 Spending Review and beyond

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We examine the challenges facing public services and the Chancellor’s public spending options at the forthcoming Budget and Spending Reviews.

10 October 2024

IFS Green Budget 2024

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All the analysis from our IFS Green Budget 2024, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and in partnership with Citi.

10 October 2024

Academic research

Even if Reeves manages to avoid making cuts, councils will still need a laser-like focus on efficiency

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David Phillips says that even if chancellor Rachel Reeves manages to avoid making cuts, councils will still need a laser-like focus on efficiency

10 October 2024

6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference | Driving Progress: Public Finance and Structural Transformation

conference 26 September 2024 at 08:30

Online registrations are now open for the 6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference.

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

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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