Taxes and benefits

This Election Briefing Note shows how the tax and benefit reforms proposed by the three

This Election Briefing Note assesses the main parties' manifesto claims about living standards, poverty and taxation.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.

This note starts with a summary of tax reforms since 1997. This is followed by an assessment of the overall effect of these changes on the tax burden faced by businesses and on government revenues. The note concludes with a discussion of future trends in

This note looks at the changes in employment and Labour's policies since 1997 and review the proposals of the three main parties in this area.

This Briefing Note examines the evolution of the tax burden over the last 50 years. It then looks at the proposals in the parties' manifestos.

The analysis in this paper is motivated by the controversial empirical findings and by recent developments in econometrics for partial identification.

This note looks at the distributional impact of changes to the tax and benefit system since 1997.

This paper investigates the effectiveness of the program in terms of enhancing the (re)employment probability of participant males.

This paper investigates the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps.

This paper is concerned with the extent to which household expenditure patterns are affected by Child Benefit.

Russia dramatically reduced its higher rates of personal income tax (PIT) in 2001 establishing a single marginal rate at the low level of 13 percent.

In this Briefing Note, we will focus on the programme Familias en Acción, the conditional cash-transfer programme implemented by the Colombian government from 2001/02.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)’s Pensim2 model is a dynamic microsimulation model.

We analyse a puzzle in the UK corporation tax: by both historic and international standards, corporation tax revenues have been high while the statutory rate has been reduced.

We provide evidence on the impact of a large construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina.

A review of the Labour Government's success in improving the financial reward to work for low-income families.