Events

Once again the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) are jointly organising debates during this year’s party conference season, this time on the question: ‘Is the tax system fair?’

This is a joint event organised by the ETPF and IFS. Bob Stack is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs in the Office of Tax Policy at the US Department of the Treasury.

Once again the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) are jointly organising debates during this year’s party conference season, this time on the question: ‘Is the tax system fair?’

For further information on this conference and to register your interest, please refer to the link on this event webpage.

IFS and the Bank of England held a conference to explore how recent developments in capital and labour markets can help to explain aggregate outcomes since the Great Recession. The conference combined microeconomic studies relevant for the UK with papers that draw lessons from other countries.

In a new report, to be launched at this event, we will analyse redistribution from a lifetime perspective, showing how this changes our view of what impact the tax and benefit system has and what the implications are for policy design.

On Thursday 16 July, the IFS will publish its detailed annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Chancellor George Osborne will deliver the first Budget of this parliament on Wednesday 8 July 2015 – the first Budget from a Conservative government for almost 19 years. On the following day, Thu 9 July, the IFS will hold a lunchtime briefing in the Brunei Gallery at SOAS, University of London.

This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977.We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over time and combine it with international effective top tax rate data.

Join a panel of leading economists and tax professionals to explore this thought-provoking topic at a debate organised by the Chartered Institute of Taxation and the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

What are the most important plans for the EU? How do they relate to proposals likely to emerge from the OECD? And conversely, are OECD BEPS proposals commensurate with EU law and policy? How far, and in what ways, do member states continue to compete with each other? Are some forms of competition fairer than others? And in the focus on combating tax avoidance, what about the effects of corporation tax on investment and economic growth? The European Tax Policy Forum’s 2015 conference will address these issues with a range of first class speakers.

We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies.

On Tuesday 28 April the IFS will publish its analysis comparing the tax and benefit plans of the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

IFS analysis of the parties' manifesto plans on the public finances.