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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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Our research covers a wide range of topics related to businesses and their investments, including firm productivity,

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The Family Expenditure Survey database at the Institute for Fiscal Policy

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1 January 1991

Inflation non-neutralities in the UK corporation tax

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Corporation tax in the UK is based on an estimate of historic cost company profits.

1 November 1990

Local government finance: the 1990 reforms

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In this commentary we describe in detail reforms taking place to local authority finances and analyse their effects on local authorities and local tax payers.

1 April 1990

Harmonising corporate taxes in Europe

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Although it is now over twenty years since the European Commission first published proposals concerning the harmonisation of corporate taxes, the debate on the desirablility of any such reform has not yet achieved a high political profile.

8 February 1990

Why social security expenditure in the 1980s has risen faster than expected: the role of unemployment

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The difficulties encountered in forecasting social security expenditure (significantly underpredicted for much of the 1980s) have long been a source of concern-not least to officials in the DSS.

8 February 1990

The British tax system (fifth edition)

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This book uses economic analysis to examine the problems facing the British tax system, and offers a strategy for reform.

1 January 1990

Reforming National Insurance contributions: a progress report

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The most dramatic change in the 1989 Budget was a major reform of the structure of employee's National Insurance contributions (NICs).

8 May 1989

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The Family Expenditure Survey database at the Institute for Fiscal Policy

Inflation non-neutralities in the UK corporation tax

Local government finance: the 1990 reforms

Harmonising corporate taxes in Europe

Why social security expenditure in the 1980s has risen faster than expected: the role of unemployment

The British tax system (fifth edition)

Reforming National Insurance contributions: a progress report

Top-rate tax cuts and incentives: some empirical evidence

Reforming National Insurance contributions

The 1988 social security reforms

Modelling the take-up of means-tested benefits: the case of housing benefits in the UK

Labour supply specification and the evaluation of tax reforms

On the growth of corporation tax revenues

Statutory sick pay: an appraisal

The targetting of benefits: two approaches

The reform of personal taxation: a brief analysis

The poverty trap, tax cuts and the reform of social security

The restructuring of National Insurance contributions in the 1985 budget

On the reform of the taxation of husband and wife: are incentives important?

Changes in the taxation of North Sea oil

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