Reports

What happens to private pension saving when workers move from employee jobs to self-employment and how does this vary for different groups of workers?

We analyse the evolution of civil legal aid cases and active providers in England and Wales from 2009 onwards.

Recent fall in youth employment is approaching the decline seen during COVID and the 2008 financial crisis.

This report summarises new longitudinal analysis to understand how life courses are associated with pension saving and retirement outcomes.

Who would be most affected by the government’s planned reform to the NICs treatment of salary sacrifice pensions and would it improve the tax system?

Drawing on the IFS Deaton Review of inequalities, this report sets out a policy toolkit and applications to education, jobs, geography and wealth.

How is wealth distributed and how has this changed over time? We use a consistent methodology for valuing pension wealth to answer these questions.

Scotland’s child poverty rate is lower than in the rest of the UK – but ambitious 2030 targets are set to be missed

Wales’s employment rate is falling further behind the rest of the UK, posing a challenge for the next Welsh Government

Planned reforms to the Soft Drinks Industry Levy will have little impact on the government’s efforts to tackle obesity. 

Wales leads on council tax revaluation – but has followed England on a range of ill-advised tax policy changes

Scotland has made its tax and benefit system more progressive than the rest of the UK’s, but unnecessarily complex and distortionary.

What should the government consider in the universal credit review?

What is council tax support? Who receives it and how much does it affect household incomes?

Welsh health and education systems are underperforming – with cuts to spending on some public services likely post-election.

Scottish public services are struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, and cuts to some services loom.

Which graduates would repay less under different reforms to Plan 2 student loans, and when? And how much might these proposals cost taxpayers?

Wales receives relatively more funding than it should according to available needs assessments – but these are nearly 20 years old and need updating.

The UK’s approach to fiscal policy needs a rethink. The current framework, based around a set of pass–fail fiscal rules, isn’t working well.