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Inheritance tax rises and the Budget: who's affected?
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We discuss how inheritance tax actually changed in the budget, who will be affected and whether it was a good idea.
15 November 2024
How big are the UK's demographic challenges?
podcast
With birth rates at record lows, we ask what the implications are for the UK and how it might impact the public finances.
8 November 2024
What does the Budget mean for the UK?
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We discuss the Chancellor's first Budget and what impact the changes could have.
31 October 2024
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IFS recruitment event: Summer students
event 2 December 2024
We're offer an opportunity to meet current IFS staff and find out more about our summer placement scheme for current university students.
Challenges for the means-tested benefit system for older people
event 11 December 2024
At this online event, IFS researchers will present new research highlighting key issues with the benefit system around retirement age.
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Our research covers a wide range of topics related to businesses and their investments, including firm productivity, innovation and research and development, the location of firms’ activities and the effects of tax, competition and other policies.

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The Scottish Resource Spending Review: will the government choose axing or taxing?

Comment

In its upcoming Resource Spending Review, the Scottish Government will have to choose between spending cuts, tax rises, or hoping for extra UK government funding.

27 May 2022

It’s time to take a firmer grip on companies and competition law

Comment

Globalisation, inequality, feeble productivity growth, earnings stagnation, the falling labour share of national income — the most important features of economic life. And one institution binds them together: the firm.

25 April 2022

Levelling up: geographical inequality in the UK explained

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How big are inequalities in work and pay? Why are there such large gaps? Can the levelling up agenda fix these problems?

22 April 2022

It’s time to rethink how we tax the income of the super-rich

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Paul Johnson in The Times on taxing the super rich.

11 April 2022

Top income inequality and tax policy

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Concerns about how much income ‘the rich’ have, the activities from which it is derived, and how much tax is paid on it are central to debates about inequality.

7 April 2022

Spring Statement: inflation, living standards and uncertainty

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We look at the Chancellor's Spring Statement and discuss how effective it is, and what the long-term implications are.

25 March 2022

Firms and inequality

Book Chapter

This chapter assesses inequality between firms in the UK.

3 March 2022

Firms, market power, innovation and inequality

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This event addressed a number of key questions regarding firms and inequality.

3 March 2022

CIOT/IFS Online Debate: Is it time for a windfall tax?

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Do ‘windfall taxes’ have a place in a modern tax system? Should the UK introduce a windfall tax now on the profits of oil and gas companies?

1 March 2022

Levelling up

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Our analysis of the government's announcements on levelling up.

4 February 2022

An initial IFS response to the government's Levelling Up White Paper

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We respond to the government’s ‘Levelling Up White Paper' published today.

2 February 2022

IFS pre-release 'stress test' for the Levelling Up White Paper

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New IFS research shows that regional inequalities have been very persistent, and that making a difference will take persistent focus over a long time.

1 February 2022