Topics

Topics

Topics
Business and investment Consumption and prices Education and skills Employment and income Government finances and spending Health and social care International development Poverty, inequality and social mobility Research methods Savings, pensions and wealth Taxes and benefits
Collections
Student finance NHS waiting lists Levelling up Housing

Help me find something
Research and analysis
Research and analysis
Reports

Reports

Featured content
The Mirrlees Review

Comment

Working papers

Journals

Press releases

Presentations

Fiscal Studies

Data

Fiscal facts
Help me find something
Podcasts, explainers and calculators
Podcasts, explainers and calculators
Podcasts

Explainers

Calculators and tools

Calculators and tools

Additional resources
Fiscal facts Guides, manuals, software and more

What's the future of corporation tax?
podcast
Corporation tax was introduced 60 years ago. Despite many predictions of its decline, it is now forecast to raise record amounts. 
10 April 2025
Spring Statement 2025: IFS Zooms In
podcast
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(13, 13, 13);counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;cursor:text;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> What were the decisions and trade-offs made by Chancellor Reeves?
27 March 2025
The Schools Bill: what's changing and why?
podcast
The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work?
11 March 2025
Additional resources
Guides, manuals, software and more Fiscal facts: public finances, tax and benefits
Help me find something
Events
Events
Events

Seminars

Annual lectures

Past presentations

IFS Annual Lecture: Trade Wars and the Future of Globalisation
conference 20 May 2025
Professor Meredith Crowley will deliver the 2025 <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(37, 61, 64);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"DM Serif Text", serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">IFS Annual Lecture. 
From Sure Start to Family Hubs: how can evidence best inform policymaking for joined up family support in the early years?
conference 22 May 2025
This event will explore the evidence and policy landscape around early years family support. It will also mark the launch of a new report from IFS.
Help me find something
About
About
People

People

Research fellows

Research Associates

Communications, finance and administration

Visitors

Announcements

Governance

How we are funded

Impact

Jobs

Press office

History of the IFS

Contact

Jobs
landing page
At IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We aim to foster a respectful and inclusive working environment.
20 July 2022
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy
The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
Help me find something

Topics

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.

Showing 41 – 60 of 521 results

Election Special: Your questions answered

Podcast

In the final run up to the election, we answer your questions about everything from borrowing to AI to the part that luck plays in the economy.

27 June 2024

Election Special: The big issues politicians haven't spoken about

Podcast

What are the manifestos missing? What are the big challenges facing us? And what information should voters be aware of as they head to the polls?

25 June 2024

Election Special: The Labour manifesto explained

Podcast

We discuss the Labour manifesto launched on Thursday and give our reaction to the policies and pledges within it.

14 June 2024

Election Special: The Conservative manifesto explained

Podcast

We discuss the Conservative manifesto launched on Tuesday and give our reaction to the policies and pledges within it.

12 June 2024

Pensions: five key decisions for the next government

Report

How will the next government change pensions policies? This report examines key decisions that need to be taken.

7 June 2024

Making mortgage guarantees permanent will help some first-time buyers, but only if they can afford a bigger mortgage

Comment

Today, Labour have pledged to make the government’s mortgage guarantee scheme permanent if they win power. We discuss the impact of such a scheme.

6 June 2024

Should the pensions lifetime allowance be reintroduced and, if so, how?

Comment

Budget 2023 abolished the lifetime limit on tax-privileged pension savings. Labour has committed to reintroducing it. Would that be a good idea?

4 June 2024

The intergenerational elasticity of earnings: Exploring the mechanisms

Working Paper

We use data covering a single cohort’s ﬁrst 55 years of life to explain the differences in the intergenerational elasticity of earnings.

3 June 2024

What does the Conservatives' 'triple lock plus' announcement mean? And what's the context around tax and the state pension?

Explainer

IFS Director Paul Johnson explains.

30 May 2024

Homeownership for young adults has recovered to its 2010 level

Comment

What has happened to homeownership since 2010 and how do the trends differ by age and income? We consider the latest data.

29 May 2024

A new triple-locked personal allowance for pensioners?

Comment

Reintroducing a higher pensioner personal allowance would be another example of the Conservatives reversing a recent Conservative Chancellor’s policy.

28 May 2024

Election Special: What you need to know

Podcast

In our first election special, we look at the broad economic picture and analyse announcements about the fiscal rules, the triple lock and tax.

28 May 2024

Raising revenue from closing inheritance tax loopholes

Comment

Reforms could be enacted to make inheritance tax fairer and raise revenue.

18 April 2024

The life-cycle dynamics of wealth mobility

Working Paper

In this paper, we use 25 years of tax records for the Norwegian population and find considerable wealth mobility over the life cycle.

10 April 2024

House price rises and borrowing to invest

Working Paper

We propose a borrow-to-invest motive by which house price gains affect household spending on residential investment.

27 March 2024

Spring Budget 2024: What you need to know

Podcast

IFS reaction to the Chancellor's Spring Budget.

7 March 2024

Spring Budget 2024

Collection

All our analysis of the Spring Budget 2024. Includes research, comment, explainers and more.

6 March 2024

Taxing rented and owner-occupied housing

Presentation

This presentation was given at a Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) seminar on 16 January 2024.

23 January 2024

The Pensions Review

Collection

The Pensions Review assesses what pensions policy and the economic environment mean for future retirees’ living standards, recommending reform options

22 January 2024