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This document provides an overview of the UK tax system, describing how each of the main taxes works and setting their current state into a historical context going back to 1979.

 

    Authors

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    Thomas Pope

    Tom Waters
    Tom Waters

    Associate Director

    Tom is an Associate Director at the IFS and Head of the Income, Work and Welfare sector.

    Report details

    DOI
    10.1920/bn.ifs.2000.0009
    ISBN
    978-1-909463-68-4
    Publisher
    IFS

    Suggested citation

    Pope, T and Waters, T. (2016). A survey of the UK tax system. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/survey-uk-tax-system (accessed: 21 March 2025).

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    Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), 2015-2020

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