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The Autumn Statement explained
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We analyse the Chancellor's 2023 Autumn Statement.
24 November 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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Savings, pensions and wealth

Our work examines how and why people accumulate wealth - such as in housing, pensions and other assets - and how they use it over their working life and in retirement. We also analyse decisions about retirement and the impact of pensions and saving policy on incomes, saving and retirement decisions.

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Autumn Statement 2023

Collection

All our IFS analysis of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement 2023.

22 November 2023

Autumn Statement 2023 response

Comment

Higher inflation has boosted tax revenues. Rather than compensate public services, or bank the spoils, the Chancellor decided to cut taxes.

22 November 2023

Cutting inheritance tax isn’t quite as simple as its proponents suggest

Comment

"There are dozens of tax cuts that would be some combination of more equitable and better designed to promote economic efficiency and growth."

20 November 2023

Halving inheritance tax would give away an average of £180,000 to the top 5% of estates at death

Comment

It is rumoured the Chancellor will halve inheritance tax in next week’s Autumn Statement. Four-fifths of the cut would go to estates worth over £1m.

18 November 2023

A spouse and a house are all we need? Housing demand, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle

Working Paper

We use a limited commitment framework to study how changes in marriage value affect household decisions over the lifecycle.

6 November 2023

Retirement is not always a choice that workers can afford to make

Comment

"More of us may feel little choice but to work a year or two longer than planned." Paul Johnson writes for The Times.

6 November 2023

Understanding retirement in the UK

Report

We comprehensively examine the changing patterns of retirement in the UK for different groups in society.

1 November 2023

IFS Green Budget 2023

Collection

All the analysis from our IFS Green Budget 2023, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and in partnership with Citi.

17 October 2023

Full expensing and the corporation tax base

Report

This report discusses the temporary full-expensing policy and whether it should be made a permanent part of the corporate tax base.

6 October 2023

‘Only millionaires should fear inheritance tax – not the property-owning middle class’

Comment

"As inherited wealth grows, the need for tax reform is becoming more pressing." Carl Emmerson writes in The Telegraph.

4 October 2023

The effects of pension reforms on physician labour supply: Evidence from the English NHS

Working Paper

We examine labour supply responses of senior doctors following a pension reform that moved NHS staff from a final salary to career average pension.

29 September 2023

What is the point of inheritance tax?

Comment

David Sturrock and Arun Advani write for the New Statesman on inheritance tax, social mobility and tax revenues.

29 September 2023

Reforming inheritance tax

Presentation

At this online event we examined options for, and distributional effects of, the reform of inheritance tax.

27 September 2023

Reforming inheritance tax

Report

We set out issues with the inheritance tax system and examine options for reform and the distributional impacts of reforming or abolishing the tax.

27 September 2023

IFS responds to release of average earnings statistics which determine rise in state pension in April

Comment

IFS response to today’s average earnings growth figure, which is very likely to determine how much the state pension increases by next April.

12 September 2023

The triple lock: uncertainty for pension incomes and the public finances

Report

The pensions triple lock has increased state pension spending and creates uncertainty for current and future generations of pensioners.

8 September 2023

Intergenerational mobility in the UK

Report

Your parents’ income and wealth is of ever-growing importance in determining your own position in the lifetime income distribution.

7 September 2023

Is it time to reboot welfare economics? Overview

Journal article

The articles in this Fiscal Studies symposium engage with the question of how to revive normative questions as a central issue in economic scholarship

5 September 2023