Tax

France’s failed budget highlights fundamental challenges with public debt, slow growth, and the need for significant reforms.

At this event, an expert panel debated what part tax plays in housing market failures and what can be done to fix it. 

The UK Budget has improved the Scottish funding outlook, but tough choices loom down the line 

The Autumn 2024 Budget brought some agricultural property into inheritance tax. What are the changes? Who will be affected? Were they a good idea?

This edition of the Survey of Ghana’s Tax System provides a comprehensive overview of the tax system as of the start of 2024.

Scotland’s income tax rises have likely increased tax avoidance and migration – but the size of the effects is uncertain.

Tax and spending will increase by a huge 5% of national income this decade, but most of that increase occurred under the last government.

Why might the government be justified in trying to influence what we eat, and how effective have these interventions been?

At this online webinar IFS researchers presented their initial response to new Chancellor Rachel Reeves' first Budget.

On top of inherited plans, personal tax and benefit measures will on average reduce incomes by £1,400 over this parliament. 

By 2029–30, the share of deaths liable for inheritance tax is forecast to rise to reach its highest level in over 50 years.

We discuss the Chancellor's first Budget and what impact the changes could have.

Increases in taxes and borrowing are not costless and the spending plans after 2025-26 are unlikely to survive contact with reality.

Following the Autumn Budget 2024, UK tax revenue is now set to reach its highest ever level as a share of GDP.

The Autumn Budget 2024 was a big tax-raising Budget, with a tax increase equal to 1.21% of forecast national income.

The tax rises announced in the Autumn Budget 2024 are the second highest as a share of GDP by the end of the forecast in decades.

Climate change doesn’t care about national borders. 

Rachel Reeves needs to deliver a clear statement of intent for the remainder of this government’s time in office

We’re look at some of the challenges facing the Chancellor and what she can learn from previous Budgets.

A special in-person recording of an episode of the IFS podcast the week ahead of Rachel Reeves' all-important first Budget.