Government finances and spending

David Phillips, Senior research economist, gave this presentation on the implications of the Autumn Statement for local government to a range of council staff and other stakeholders.

Last month, researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies launched first paper the from a new programme on local government finance. This paper looked at a range of issues including, changes in councils’ spending and revenues over the last seven years, and issues related to the evolving English business rates retention scheme (BRRS). Today, we publish two spreadsheets with information for individual council areas: a spreadsheet showing changes to councils’ spending on services between 2009–10 and 2016–17; and a spreadsheet showing relative gains and losses from the BRRS since it was introduced in 2013–14.

This presentation was given at an IFS briefing following the Autumn Statement 2016.

This presentation was given at an IFS briefing following the Autumn Statement 2016.

This presentation was given at an IFS briefing following the Autumn Statement 2016.

What if the Welsh Government raises or cuts taxes? Implications for revenues and behaviour

A special issue of Fiscal Studies published today looks at patterns of individual level health spending across a range of countries, and finds some important similarities. It shows how health spending is concentrated in the last years of life, how significantly more is spent on the poor than on the rich and how health spending tends to be concentrated on a relatively small number of people with high needs.

IFS Director Paul Johnson writes in The Times.

This presentation was given at fringe events at the 2016 Party Conferences of Labour, the Conservatives and SNP.

Understanding local police spending

This presentation was given at a workshop on 'Microsimulation for fiscal policy analysis' held at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Seville, Spain, on 23 September 2016.

This presentation was delivered at a Treasury / HMRC tax policy school in London on 21st September 2016

Presentation given at the IPFIN 2016 conference - which brings together researchers from the Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies and the Scottish and

Presentation given to the Welsh Assembly Finance Committee discussing the background to good tax design, tax devolution, and the need for a new fiscal framework (including adjustments to block grant funding) to accompany tax devolution.