Stuart Adam

Senior Economist

Stuart joined the IFS in 2001 and works in the Tax sector. His research focuses on analysing the design of the tax and benefit system, and he has written about many aspects of tax and benefit policy, including income tax and National Insurance; VAT; property taxation; small business taxation; savings and wealth taxation; motoring taxation; tax credits; universal credit; disability benefits; work incentives and redistribution; support for families with children; and local government finance. Stuart was an author and editor of the Mirrlees Review of the UK tax system.

Education

MSc (Distinction) Economics, University College London, 2004

BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford, 2001

Contact

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Twitter: @StuartAdam_IFS

Orcid number: 0000-0003-2423-7929

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The Mirrlees Review: Land and property taxation

Presentation

This presentation was delivered at the Department for Communities and Local Government.

8 March 2011

Indirect and environmental taxation

Presentation

This presentation was delivered at an HM Treasury conference on 25 January 2011.

25 January 2011

Redistribution, work incentives and thirty years of UK tax and benefit reform

Working Paper

In this paper we look at how the tax and benefit system redistributed income and affected incentives to work in 2009-10, and at the effect of tax and benefit reforms between 1978-79 and 2009-10 on the level of inequality and work incentives.

9 December 2010

Mirrlees Review launch of findings

Event 10 November 2010 at 09:30 University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

On Wednesday 10 November we will launch the findings of the Mirrlees Review.

Mirrlees Review of tax system recommends radical changes

Press Release

Britain's tax system is ripe for reform in ways that could significantly increase people's welfare and improve the performance of the economy.

10 November 2010

Indirect and environmental taxation

Presentation

This presentation was delivered at the Mirrlees Review launch of findings, 10 November 2010.

10 November 2010

Dimensions of Tax Design

Book

Dimensions of Tax Design, volume one of the Mirrlees Review, analyses the different aspects and characteristics of the tax system.

13 September 2010

Welfare reform paper sets out sensible ideas for simplification, but ducks difficult decisions

Comment

The Department of Work and Pensions today published a consultation paper called 21st Century Welfare which sets out ideas for fundamental reforms to the benefits system. The report presents a number of options for integrating different existing benefits.

30 July 2010

Couple 'penalties' in tax and benefit system are widespread, but almost impossible to eliminate

Press Release

29 April 2010

Couple penalties and premiums in the UK tax and benefit system

Report

This report analyses the distribution of couple penalties and premiums in the tax and benefit system using a large, statistically representative sample of households.

29 April 2010

Taxes and benefits: the parties' plans

Report

This note discusses the tax and benefit proposals of Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, looking at their economic and administrative merits, their distributional impact and their effect of incentives to work and save.

27 April 2010

Do the Liberal Democrats' tax plans add up?

Comment

The Liberal Democrats propose to increase the income tax personal allowance to £10,000 while keeping the level of income at which people start to pay the higher rate of tax unchanged. They say this giveaway would cost £16.8 billion in 2011-12. They also propose a set of significant tax-raising measures, but do their plans add up?

14 April 2010

Do the poorest really pay the most in tax?

Comment

The Liberal Democrats have, once again, claimed that the poor pay more of their income in tax than the rich, and that this gap has got larger under Labour. But, by ignoring the fact that the poor get most of this income from the state in benefit and tax credit payments, and by overstating the extent to which indirect taxes are paid by the poor, this comparison is meaningless at best and misleading at worst.

12 April 2010