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Why we need to reform inheritance tax
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We discuss the issues with inheritance tax and how to reform it.
6 December 2023
The Autumn Statement 2023 explained in 90 seconds
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Paul Johnson responds to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement.
22 November 2023
Cake or biscuit? The UK's byzantine VAT system explained
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This week, we dive into the oddities of the VAT system.
16 November 2023
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Education spending: an engine for levelling-up?
event 11 December 2023
The launch of the 2023 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Social mobility and wealth
conference 12 December 2023
At this in-person event, IFS researchers will share findings from ESRC-funded research on social mobility and its drivers.
Where next for the state pension?
event 13 December 2023
At this online event, IFS researchers will present findings from a major new report on the future of the state pension in the UK.
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The fiscal backdrop to Spring Budget 2023

Comment

How might recent economic developments affect the outlook for the public finances, and what does this mean for the Chancellor’s options at the Budget?

28 February 2023

Public finances may be improving, but personal circumstances certainly are not

Comment

"Don’t be lulled into thinking we have reached the bottom of hole into which living standards have been sliding. We almost certainly haven’t."

27 February 2023

Scottish Budget 2023–24: further analysis

Report

The aim of this report is to look at some of the key implications of the Scottish Budget for the coming year, and for the longer term.

17 February 2023

Scottish Budget 2023–24

Collection

Read all our analysis of the Scottish Budget for 2023–24.

14 February 2023

Analysis of Scottish tax and benefit reforms

Report

We analyse the impact of changes to devolved income tax rates and bands and benefits, and show the total impact of the changes.

9 February 2023

Council and school funding

Report

After health, funding for Scottish councils is the second largest item in the Scottish Government’s Budget.

3 February 2023

Income tax performance

Report

This chapter looks at what we know about why Scotland’s tax base has grown more slowly so far since devolution.

26 January 2023

The overall funding outlook

Report

This chapter looks at the Scottish government's funding outlook in the short term (2022–23 and 2023–24), medium term (2024–25 to 2027–28) and beyond.

26 January 2023

Strikes, Budgets, Brexit and elections: a look ahead to 2023

Podcast

The IFS podcast returns with a look at what to expect in 2023.

11 January 2023

The economic and fiscal outlook: modelling the impact on local government

Presentation

Slides from David Phillips and Kate Ogden's presentation at the 2023 LGA Annual Local Government Finance Conference.

11 January 2023

A monetary-fiscal theory of sudden inflations

Working Paper

This paper posits an information channel as the explanation for sudden inflations.

20 December 2022

English councils’ core spending power is set to grow by up to 11% in real-terms over the next two years

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The local government finance policy statement confirms a boost to councils’ funding over the next two years, targeted at social care and poorer areas.

16 December 2022