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Budget 2026: what should we expect?
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What should we expect from the October Budget? IFS economists discuss the choices facing the Chancellor on energy bills, taxes and public spending.
22 October 2026
Is the Chancellor’s spending plan credible?
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Higher inflation, rising borrowing and potential spending cuts: what will the Chancellor’s first Budget mean for the economy and households today?
15 October 2026
Are renewables making electricity more expensive?
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Why is electricity so expensive? We explore the role of renewables, the costs of decarbonisation and the future of Britain's energy system.
8 October 2026
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IFS Zooms In Live: A look ahead to the Budget
event 20 October 2026
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Autumn Budget 2026: IFS analysis
event 29 October 2026
Join us as IFS researchers present their initial response to Chancellor John Healey's Autumn Budget.
IFS Public Economics Day 2027
event 8 January 2027
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Our research looks at inequalities in living standards, education, health and other outcomes. We study the role of labour market outcomes, taxes and benefits, and structural forces like globalisation in shaping trends in poverty, inequality and social mobility.

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1 January 1991

Poverty in official statistics: two reports

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These two reports form the latest in a series of IFS studies on poverty and low incomes in the United Kingdom.

1 October 1990

The distributional consequences of environmental taxes

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This commentary concentrates on the particular issues raised by environmental taxation, in the form of the additional tax burden and its distribution accross households.

1 July 1990

The structure of alcohol taxes: a hangover from the past?

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1 March 1990

Ten years of Mrs Thatcher: the distributional consequences

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In the ten year period of Mrs Thatcher's government, and especially over the last few years, there have been many changes to the tax and benefit system.

8 May 1989

26 July 1982

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Poverty in official statistics: two reports

The distributional consequences of environmental taxes

The structure of alcohol taxes: a hangover from the past?

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Fiscal privilege and financial assets: some distributional effects

Taxes, benefits and the distribution of income, 1968-83

The distributional consequences of Mrs Thatcher

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Progressivity and graduation in income tax

The tax system and distribution 1978-1983

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