The distributional effects of the UK government’s tax and welfare reforms in Wales: an update

Published on 2 July 2014

This report is an updated analysis of the personal tax and benefit reforms implemented, or due to be implemented, by the UK’s coalition government from when it was elected in May 2010 up to and including April 2015.

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This report is an updated analysis of the personal tax and benefit reforms implemented, or due to be implemented, by the UK’s coalition government from when it was elected in May 2010 up to and including April 2015. This includes those measures that had been pre-announced by the previous Labour government which the new government chose to implement. Attention is restricted to personal tax and benefit reforms alone: it does not examine the impact of reforms to corporation tax and other taxes formally paid by businesses, nor the impact of changes to spending on public services.

 

Word version of the report

Welsh translation of the report (pdf)

Welsh translation of the report (word)

    Authors

    David Phillips
    David Phillips

    Associate Director

    David is Head of Devolved and Local Government Finance. He also works on tax in developing countries as part of our TaxDev centre.

    Report details

    DOI
    10.1920/BN.IFS.2014.001450
    ISBN
    978-1-909463-53-0
    Publisher
    Institute for Fiscal Studies

    Suggested citation

    Phillips, D. (2014). The distributional effects of the UK government’s tax and welfare reforms in Wales: an update. London: Institute for Fiscal Studies. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/distributional-effects-uk-governments-tax-and-welfare-reforms-wales-update (accessed: 29 April 2025).

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