The Schools Bill: what's changing and why? podcast<p class="p1">The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work?</p>11 March 2025
Family values: inheritance, inequality and social mobility podcast<p><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;">Wealth concentration among baby boomers and stagnant earnings are driving the rise of the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, affecting social mobility.</span></p>3 March 2025
How important is the OBR forecast? podcast<p>The OBR forecast will underpin the Chancellor’s decisions at the next Spring Forecast.</p>12 February 2025
Spring Statement 2025: IFS analysis event 27 March 2025 <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;">At this online event IFS researchers will present their initial analysis of the Chancellor's Spring Statement.</span></p>
How can people be better helped to draw on their pension wealth in retirement? event 1 April 2025 <p><span data-teams="true">This online event will present new analysis of the way in which defined contribution pension wealth is currently being accessed.</span></p>
IFS residential conference 2025: How do we build a business tax system for the 21st century? conference 3 April 2025 <p>This conference, in association with <a href="https://www.deloitte.co.uk">Deloitte</a>, will discuss the UK business tax system in the context of the new Corporate Tax Roadmap.</p>
Jobs landing page<p>At IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We aim to 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.
TaxDev collaborating with Government of Ghana on VAT, customs, and distributional analysis News Ghana Ministry of Finance officials explain how the partnership with TaxDev is helping to improve tax policy analysis 24 February 2025
A review of Ghana's value-added tax (VAT) system Report The report undertakes a review of the VAT system in Ghana with a view to making recommendations for future policy action. 11 February 2025
How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development Comment This blog was originally published on voxdev.org on 4 February 2025 here. Reprinted with kind permission from VoxDev. 4 February 2025
Reform or replace? Three country perspectives on the use of tax incentives for structural transformation Comment This blog was originally published on odi.org on 23 October 2024 here, and is reproduced with kind permission. 23 October 2024
Resource windfalls, public expenditures and local economies Working Paper We show that the redistribution of natural resource tax revenues to non-extractive municipalities stimulates economic activity in local economies. 18 November 2024
Wealth-related taxes in low- and middle-income countries Presentation IFS Research Fellow, Laura Abramovsky, delivered the presentation at an online meeting of officials from the BMZ and GIZ. 17 May 2024
The financial inclusion agenda: Examining the role of conventional banks in deepening access to formal credit Journal article Economic Systems Using a unique district-level panel dataset, we investigate the effect of banking system penetration on financial inclusion in Ghana. 4 June 2024
Gendered fiscal incidence analysis and tax-benefit microsimulation models: Overview, opportunities, and caveats Presentation IFS Research Fellow, Laura Abramovsky, delivered the presentation jointly with Pia Rattenhuber, a Research Fellow from UNU-WIDER. 10 September 2024
Survey of the Ghanaian Tax System Report This edition of the Survey of Ghana’s Tax System provides a comprehensive overview of the tax system as of the start of 2024. 18 November 2024
6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference | Driving Progress: Public Finance and Structural Transformation Conference 26 September 2024 at 08:30 Online registrations are now open for the 6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference.
Fiscal policy and gender income inequality: the role of taxes and social spending Report Persistent inequalities between women and men in income, unpaid work, paid work and other dimensions disadvantage women. 23 June 2023
Distributional analysis of Ghana’s tax system Report This report analyses the distributional impacts of Ghana’s direct and indirect tax systems using the GHATAX microsimulation model. 18 December 2023
