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This presentation is the appendix for Autumn Budget 2017: tax and benefit changes given at the IFS Autumn 2017 post-Budget briefing.
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Tom is an Associate Director at the IFS and Head of the Income, Work and Welfare sector.

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Norris Keiller, A and Waters, T. (2017). Autumn Budget 2017: distributional analysis. London: The IFS.
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