Budget 2026: what should we expect? podcast<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><span>What should we expect from the October Budget? IFS economists discuss the choices facing the Chancellor on energy bills, taxes and public spending.</span></p>22 October 2026
Is the Chancellor’s spending plan credible? podcast<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><span>Higher inflation, rising borrowing and potential spending cuts: what will the Chancellor’s first Budget mean for the economy and households today?</span></p>15 October 2026
Are renewables making electricity more expensive? podcast<p>Why is electricity so expensive? We explore the role of renewables, the costs of decarbonisation and the future of Britain's energy system.</p>8 October 2026
IFS Zooms In Live: A look ahead to the Budget event 20 October 2026 <p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(37, 61, 64);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"DM Serif Text", serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">A special in-person recording of an episode of the IFS Zooms In podcast ahead of the Budget, looking at the choices facing the Chancellor.</span></p>
Autumn Budget 2026: IFS analysis event 29 October 2026 <p>Join us as IFS researchers present their initial response to Chancellor John Healey's Autumn Budget.</p>
IFS Public Economics Day 2027 event 8 January 2027 <p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(37, 61, 64);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"DM Serif Text", serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">The IFS is holding a day of talks on issues in public economics of interest to undergraduates in economics and related disciplines.</span></p>
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Lifetime and annual tax progressivity in Sweden Daniel Waldenstrom Published on 16 October 2012 Paper given at the IFS event How taxes and benefits redistribute income and affect work incentives: a lifecycle perspective Taxes and benefits Poverty, inequality and social mobility Government finances and spending Tax Poverty Living standards Inequality Fiscal rules and frameworks Distributional effects Benefits
Paper given at the IFS event How taxes and benefits redistribute income and affect work incentives: a lifecycle perspective
Why has in-work poverty risen? comment We study the reasons for rising in-work poverty in the 25 years up to the pandemic. 12 November 2025
Budget 2026: what should we expect? podcast What should we expect from the October Budget? IFS economists discuss the choices facing the Chancellor on energy bills, taxes and public spending. 22 October 2026
Two-child limit mitigation in Scotland would help larger poor families but policy design could harm work incentives comment Mitigating the two-child limit policy would be an effective way to reduce child poverty, but designing an effective policy is not straightforward. 14 March 2025
Options for reforming the two-child limit comment How has the two-child limit affected child poverty and other outcomes? What options for altering this policy does the government have? 23 October 2025
The outlook for the public finances report Higher inflation, higher government borrowing costs and pressures on public services will be the key challenges faced by the Chancellor at the Budget. 12 October 2026
Unemployment, benefits and household spending: new evidence from UK bank account data report How much protection does the benefit system afford the newly unemployed? We use UK bank account data to track financial impacts of job loss. 9 January 2026
For shorter or poorer: attitudes toward the trade-off between poverty and mortality working paper Many policy decisions involve trade-offs between lives and livelihoods. We provide estimates for a new welfare parameter that expresses this trade off 1 April 2026
Small area consumption estimates combining survey and financial footprints data working paper In this paper, we estimate average equivalized consumption measures across 367 local authority districts in Great Britain. 8 July 2026
Tax Modelling and Distribution book chapter This chapter provides a review of the literature on the distributional, poverty, and inequality impacts of taxation and public spending in Africa. 16 October 2026
