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Election Special: Your questions answered
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In the final run up to the election, we answer your questions about everything from borrowing to AI to the part that luck plays in the economy.
27 June 2024
Election Special: The Labour manifesto explained
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We discuss the Labour manifesto launched on Thursday and give our reaction to the policies and pledges within it.
14 June 2024
Election Special: The Conservative manifesto explained
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We discuss the Conservative manifesto launched on Tuesday and give our reaction to the policies and pledges within it.
12 June 2024
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General Election 2024: IFS manifesto analysis
event 24 June 2024
IFS researchers and Director Paul Johnson will deliver their analysis of the parties' manifestos at a live-streamed press briefing.
Inaugural IFS postdoc workshop
workshop 4 July 2024
This academic workshop on applied public and labour economics will feature presentations by alumni of the IFS postdoc scheme.
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2024
event 25 July 2024
This online event will present the key findings from our latest flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK.
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A National Care Service will mean big changes and challenges for Scottish council funding

Comment

Plans for a Scottish ‘National Care Service’ would centralise over £4 billion of spending and may not lead to more consistent services.

11 August 2022

The inflation squeeze on public services

Comment

Higher inflation squeezes public service budgets and makes government spending plans less generous than originally intended. How much less generous?

10 August 2022

School spending and costs: the coming crunch

Report

By 2024−25, after accounting for the specific costs facing schools, we estimate that school spending per pupil will still be 3% lower than in 2010.

2 August 2022

Conservative candidates’ tax plans are increasingly similar, though still differ in scale and timing

Comment

The key point that neither candidate seems willing to spell out is that, ultimately, lower taxes mean lower spending.

1 August 2022

Rishi Sunak’s proposal to temporarily remove VAT on energy bills

Comment

Rishi Sunak has said that he would remove the 5% VAT charged on household energy bills for 12 months if the energy price cap rises above £3,000.

27 July 2022

Tax and spending policies of Conservative leadership contenders

Comment

On 5 September we will know which of the two is the next Conservative Party leader - and therefore Prime Minister - so their visions for tax and spending matter.

21 July 2022

The government’s debt interest bill in June hugely increased by high inflation and seasonal effects

Comment

Today's data release confirmed very high government debt payments in June, driven by high inflation and usual seasonal effects.

21 July 2022

An initial response to the public sector pay announcement

Comment

The government has announced pay rises for public sector workers covered by independent pay review bodies.

20 July 2022

UK Shared Prosperity Fund allocations for Welsh councils are flawed, costing some areas millions

Comment

A failure to properly account for population in Welsh councils’ Shared Prosperity Fund allocations is costing larger councils millions of pounds.

18 July 2022

What should public sector pay policy be trying to achieve?

Comment

What is the objective of public sector pay policy? What is it, and what should it be, trying to achieve?

18 July 2022

The future of public sector pensions

Podcast

We sit down with one of the architects behind the current public pensions system and discuss whether it is sustainable or needs further reform.

13 July 2022

Updated analysis of the effects of revaluing & reforming council tax across Welsh local authorities

Report

Using property prices from Q1 2022, this note partially updates analysis of council tax reform in Wales originally published in 2020.

8 July 2022

We didn’t see this coming because for 25 years we thought we had inflation licked

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'Pretty much everything we could have got wrong, we got wrong.' Paul Johnson on why economists failed to see inflation coming.

4 July 2022

Future of the welfare state

Presentation

This talk was given by Paul Johnson at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's Future of Britain conference.

1 July 2022

Business rates: reform, reduce or replace?

Presentation

This presentation was given at an LSE Taxation Seminar.

20 June 2022

Delivering a Lifetime Skills Guarantee

Comment

Imran Tahir and Luke Sibieta summarise their report on adult education funding for FE News.

20 June 2022

The hardest decision for ministers is yet to come: what to do about pay

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Paul Johnson writes for the Times on the 'difficult decisions' surrounding public sector pay.

20 June 2022

Pay compression in the NHS (and beyond)

Comment

Since 2010, more experienced and higher-paid workers in the NHS have experienced the largest pay cuts. This has compressed the pay distribution.

1 June 2022

IFS response to Scottish Resource Spending Review

Comment

8% cuts to many service areas and hidden tax rises relative to the rest of the UK

31 May 2022

The Platinum Jubilee generation: how are they doing?

Comment

The Platinum Jubilee generation – those born as the Queen came to the throne – turn 70 this year. How have their lives changed during the Queen’s reign?

30 May 2022

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