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IFS Green Budget 2022

Published on 11 October 2022

Policy analysis from our IFS Green Budget 2022, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and in partnership with Citi.

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IFS Green Budget 2022

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The IFS Green Budget 2022 takes stock of the economic and fiscal outlook following Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget and analyses the challenges ahead.

11 October 2022

UK outlook: why we need to do things differently

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The UK is the talk of the town, and not in a good way.

11 October 2022

Global economic outlook: heading for a fall?

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New shocks are threatening to cut the global post-pandemic recovery short.

11 October 2022

Outlook for the public finances

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We look at the path for the public finances and the Chancellor's options to achieve fiscal sustainability.

11 October 2022

Public spending, pay and pensions

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The public sector pay settlements announced this July will pose severe budgetary challenges for many areas of government.

8 October 2022

Reforms, roll-outs and freezes in the tax and benefit system

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We show the impact of freezes and gradual roll-outs on personal taxes and benefits, as well as considering planned changes to the tax system.

6 October 2022

Corporation tax and investment

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We look at the corporate tax system and proposals to change it.

21 October 2022

Quantitative easing, monetary policy implementation, and the public finances

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Rising interest rates, quantitative easing and current monetary policy techniques interact to put pressure on the public finances.

14 October 2022

Analysis

Reversing NICs and corporation tax rises would leave debt on an unsustainable path

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In the absence of official scrutiny from the OBR, we set out how much red ink might be added to the fiscal forecasts.

21 September 2022

The outlook for the public finances under the Bank of England’s August 2022 forecast

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This report sets out an illustrative scenario for how the current path of inflation and growth might affect government revenues and spending.

18 August 2022

What is happening to public sector pay?

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With inflation rising, and a cost of living crisis hitting the UK, how much public sector workers get paid is hitting the headlines.

31 October 2022

A response to the Chancellor’s ‘Mini-Budget’ reversals

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Fiscal credibility is hard won but easily lost. Today’s announcements won’t be enough, by themselves, to plug the gap in the government’s fiscal plans

17 October 2022

Monetary policy techniques add to strains on the public finances: reforms could bring big benefits, but costs too

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Sir Paul Tucker writes for the IFS Green Budget on how rising interest rates, quantitative easing and current monetary policy techniques interact.

14 October 2022

The challenges facing the Chancellor

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We explore the Chancellor's options for achieving fiscal sustainability.

12 October 2022

With a weaker economy, getting government finances on a sustainable path without cancelling tax cuts could force Chancellor into big and painful spending cuts

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Kwasi Kwarteng would need to announce a fiscal tightening of more than £60 billion just to stabilise debt as a fraction of national income in 2026–27.

11 October 2022