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Taxes and benefits

Our work analyses impacts on inequality, poverty, the public finances, and the behaviour of workers, firms and consumers, and considers how their design could be improved. Its focus ranges from the taxation of sugary drinks to revenue-raising measures in low and middle income countries to ongoing UK benefit reforms.

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    Rachel Reeves

    Spring Statement 2025

    Collection

    All IFS analysis to date of Chancellor Rachel Reeves' 2025 Spring Statement.

    27 March 2025

    Scottish town

    Scottish council tax: ripe for reform

    Report

    Council tax in Scotland – as in England – is out of date, regressive and distortionary. How should it be reformed, and what would the effects be?

    12 February 2025

    Row of houses

    How is tax damaging the housing market?

    Podcast

    We discuss how taxes like capital gains, stamp duty, and council tax impact the housing market, affecting affordability, renting, and homeownership.

    18 December 2024