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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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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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How does spending change through retirement?

Presentation

At this event, IFS researchers presented the findings of new research on the spending patterns of current retirees. Following this, Carolyn Jones, Hea

19 May 2022

How does spending change through retirement?

Report

In this report, we shed light on this question by examining the spending patterns of current retirees in the UK.

19 May 2022

House price rises and borrowing to invest

Working Paper

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

6 April 2022

Incomes for poorer families rose during the first year of the pandemic

Comment

We analyse the Department for Work and Pensions' latest official statistics on household incomes.

31 March 2022

High inflation threatens to raise nightmare scenario for pensioners

Comment

Director Paul Johnson on the effects of inflation on pension policy in The Times.

28 March 2022

Consumer bankruptcy, mortgage default and labour supply

Working Paper

We estimate a lifecycle model of consumption, housing demand and labor supply where individuals may file for bankruptcy or default on their mortgage.

18 March 2022

Should people be saving more for retirement?

Podcast

Saving for retirement is one of the most impactful financial decisions that people make. We hear about the latest research on this topic.

10 February 2022

The risk of pension inattention in a DC world

Report

We shed light on the issue that ‘deferred’ pensions that people no longer contribute to might provide declining value for money over time if people do not engage with them.

1 February 2022

Labour market effects of the increase in the state pension age from 65 to 66

Report

This research analyses how employment decisions have been affected by the increase in the state pension age to 66.

25 January 2022

The effect of increasing the state pension age to 66 on labour market activity

Working Paper

We study the effect of an increase in the UK state pension age from 65 to 66, a high level internationally, on labour market activity.

25 January 2022

Managing retirement incomes

Working Paper

In this paper we discuss the state of the literature relating to the decumulation of retirement wealth and the management of retirement incomes.

14 January 2022

A year of COVID: the evolution of labour market and financial inequalities through the crisis

Working Paper

We use new, high-quality UK panel data to document the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic at an individual level, from Apr 2020 to Mar 2021.

3 November 2021

Why are pensions important?

Presentation

As part of this year’s Festival of Social Science, IFS delivered a public economic talk on "Why are pensions important?" aimed at A-level and undergraduate students who have an interest in economics or might want to pursue a career in public policy research.

1 November 2021

Behavioural responses to a wealth tax

Journal article

In this paper, we review the existing empirical evidence on how individuals respond to the incentives created by a net wealth tax.

25 October 2021

Revenue and distributional modelling for a UK wealth tax

Journal article

In this paper, we model the revenue that could be raised from an annual and a one-off wealth tax of the design recommended by Advani, Chamberlain and Summers in the Wealth Tax Commission's Final Report (2020).

25 October 2021

Taxes on wealth: time for another look?

Journal article

This special issue draws together the latest thinking on wealth applying international experience and evidence to a UK context.

25 October 2021

The economic arguments for and against a wealth tax

Journal article

This article asks when a wealth tax would in principle be a desirable part of the tax system, setting aside the practicalities and politics that would be crucial in reality.

25 October 2021

The UK's wealth distribution and characteristics of high-wealth households

Journal article

We show that wealth inequality in the UK is high and has increased slightly over the past decade as financial asset prices have increased in the wake of the financial crisis.

25 October 2021

Ways of taxing wealth: alternatives and interactions

Journal article

In this paper, I examine the role of a wealth tax in the context of the UK's existing taxes on wealth.

25 October 2021

Who should pay a wealth tax? Some design issues

Journal article

This paper is concerned primarily with the question of who should pay a wealth tax and in what circumstances, if such a tax is to be levied.

25 October 2021

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