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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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Crowds of people

Benefits and tax credits

Report
This chapter finds that though benefits reforms pushed more people into work, the work is often part-time, low-paid and with little progression.

1 February 2023

Edinburgh

Income tax performance

Report
This chapter looks at what we know about why Scotland’s tax base has grown more slowly so far since devolution.

26 January 2023

20 pound notes

Are we in a new era of austerity?

Podcast
This week, we speak with Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government, and Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director at IFS.

24 November 2022

Big Ben

Autumn Statement 2022: IFS analysis

Presentation
IFS analysis of the Chancellor's announcements on the public finances, spending on public services, and the tax and benefit system.

18 November 2022

Jeremy Hunt

Autumn Statement 2022

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Analysis on the decisions made by the Chancellor at the 2022 Autumn Statement, from the Institute for Fiscal Studies

17 November 2022