What would it take to fix social care? podcast<p class="p1">How does social care work, why has reform proved so difficult, and what would it take to build a fairer and more sustainable system?</p>17 September 2026
Land value tax: the perfect tax? podcast<p>Unlike most taxes, land value tax doesn’t discourage people from working, investing or building. So why don’t we use it more?</p>7 September 2026
How to fix business rates podcast<p class="p1">Business rates are blamed for killing the high street. But would cutting them actually help shops and pubs - or simply make landlords richer?</p>27 August 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>
Jobs landing page<p>At IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We foster a respectful and inclusive working environment.</p>20 July 2022
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
A survey of the Ethiopian tax system (2025-26) Report A survey of Ethiopia's tax system: how it works, what it raises, recent reforms and how it compares with the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. 5 October 2026
Estimating the VAT gap in Ghana Report This report builds on a well-established IMF methodology to estimate the size and composition of Ghana’s VAT gap over the period 2013 to 2024. 17 September 2026
A survey of the Ghanaian tax system (2026) Report Third edition of the Survey that provides a comprehensive overview of Ghana's tax system as of the 2026 mid-year Budget. 15 September 2026
Comparing tax and benefit microsimulation models: a guide for analysts in low- and middle-income countries Report Methodological, practical, and institutional commonalities and differences between TaxDev, SOUTHMOD, and CEQ tools for distributional analysis. 30 June 2026
Call for papers: 8th World Bank / ODI Global / IFS Public Finance Conference Announcement We are pleased to announce the 8th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference, taking place in Washington on the 24th-25th of September, 2026 21 April 2026
Ethiopia’s tax-to-GDP ratio has fallen, even as the country has got richer Comment Despite its economy growing, Ethiopia's tax base has not kept pace. This is due to a complicated legacy of former and current policy. 18 September 2025
Taxing smarter: How research collaboration is strengthening tax systems in Africa News This side event, cost-hosted with ICTD and IISD, was held at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville. 21 July 2025
Ethiopia’s tax-to-GDP ratio: benchmark estimation and performance analysis Resource This report provides a detailed analysis of Ethiopia’s tax-to-GDP ratio potential and the factors behind Ethiopia’s low tax-to-GDP ratio. 15 August 2025
7th World Bank / ODI Global / IFS Public Finance Conference Conference 25 September 2025 at 09:00 Join us for the 7th edition of the World Bank / ODI Global / IFS Public Finance Conference.
Taxing capital income and wealth in low- and middle-income countries: practice, principles and gaps Presentation IFS Research Fellow, Laura Abramovsky, delivered the presentation in Helsinki as part of the UNU-WIDER's flagship conference in June 2025. 18 July 2025
Manuel de l’estimation du coût d’une politique fiscale Resource Introduction à l’estimation du coût d’une politique fiscale: Un manuel et des exemples pratiques 8 July 2025
The fiscal contract up close: Experimental evidence from Mexico City Working Paper We analyse the impact of local public infrastructure on tax compliance, leveraging a large public investment experiment and property tax records. 14 August 2024
