Benefit and tax credit changes

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Why did the French Budget fail to pass?

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France’s failed budget highlights fundamental challenges with public debt, slow growth, and the need for significant reforms.

12 December 2024

What is this government’s ‘theory of growth’? Nobody knows

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"Shifting the performance of an entire economy requires a long-term, consistent and persistent direction." Paul Johnson writes for the Times.

20 January 2025

How is tax damaging the housing market?

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We discuss how taxes like capital gains, stamp duty, and council tax impact the housing market, affecting affordability, renting, and homeownership.

18 December 2024

Policy analysis

The increases in Scotland’s top rate of income tax may have reduced revenues – although significant uncertainty remains

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Scotland’s income tax rises have likely increased tax avoidance and migration – but the size of the effects is uncertain.

15 November 2024

Challenges for the means-tested benefit system for older people

event 11 December 2024 at 10:00

At this online event, IFS researchers presented new research highlighting key issues with the benefit system around retirement age.

Targeted support could help mitigate consequences of state pension age increases for many on low incomes

press release

A report suggests targeted support in means-tested benefits could ease impacts of a higher state pension age on vulnerable groups.

11 December 2024

Academic research

Tax evasion and the contribution-benefit link: the case of maternity benefits

working paper

This paper studies tax evasion and the contribution-benefit link in the context of maternity benefits in Hungary.

18 December 2024

Survey of the Ghanaian Tax System

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This edition of the Survey of Ghana’s Tax System provides a comprehensive overview of the tax system as of the start of 2024.

18 November 2024

Reform or replace? Three country perspectives on the use of tax incentives for structural transformation

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This blog was originally published on odi.org on 23 October 2024 here, and is reproduced with kind permission.

23 October 2024