Income taxes

This presentation was given at the 'Budget Perspectives 2014' conference, held by the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin on 25 June.

In a speech in Bedford today, the Leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband, has proposed reintroducing a 10% income tax rate on a narrow band of income, to be paid for by a new ‘mansion tax’ on residential properties worth more than £2 million. In this observation, IFS researchers explain why there are better alternatives to both of these policies that would have similar distributional effects.

Presentation given at the launch of the IFS Green Budget, 6 February 2013

Article published in the Independent on Sunday, 2 December 2012

This article was part of a feature in the Tax Journal giving views on the Budget 2012.

This presentation was given at the IFS post-Budget briefing 2012.

The Government has an ambition to increase the income tax personal allowance to £10,000 by the end of this Parliament. James Browne investigates how much it would cost the Government to reach this ambition, who would benefit and what the economic impact might be.

A lifetime perspective on the distributional and incentive effects of UK personal taxes

This was a seminar given at IFS

This presentation was delivered at the ISER Seminar in March 2012