What would it take to fix social care? podcast<p class="p1">How does social care work, why has reform proved so difficult, and what would it take to build a fairer and more sustainable system?</p>17 September 2026
Land value tax: the perfect tax? podcast<p>Unlike most taxes, land value tax doesn’t discourage people from working, investing or building. So why don’t we use it more?</p>7 September 2026
How to fix business rates podcast<p class="p1">Business rates are blamed for killing the high street. But would cutting them actually help shops and pubs - or simply make landlords richer?</p>27 August 2026
Sharing income tax revenues with England’s mayors: the issues and options event 2 October 2026 <p>This online event explained the rationale, risks and design choices behind assigning England's mayoral authorities a share of local income tax.</p>
IFS Annual Lecture: Are Ideas Harder to Find, Overall? event 12 October 2026 <p><span data-teams="true">Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion will deliver the 2026 IFS Annual Lecture.</span></p>
IFS Green Budget 2026 event 14 October 2026 <p><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;">The IFS Green Budget will assess the state of the UK economy and the government’s fiscal position ahead of the Autumn Budget.</span></p>
Jobs landing page<p>At IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We foster a respectful and inclusive working environment.</p>20 July 2022
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
While their visions for the next four years differ, Wales’s main parties have one thing in common: the need to be more upfront about fiscal realitycommentWhile their visions differ, all parties’ plans would add to the fiscal challenges facing the next Welsh Government – albeit to very different extents23 April 2026
Initial response to Plaid Cymru’s manifesto commentA manifesto with more support for families with children, but important question marks over how to fund its giveaways.9 April 2026
Initial response to the Green Party’s Welsh manifestocommentA manifesto with a vision for a bigger state but no detail on how to pay for it.7 April 2026
Initial response to Welsh Labour’s manifestocommentA manifesto with more spending for priorities, but which also increases the chance of cuts to some other areas.30 March 2026
Initial response to Reform UK’s Welsh manifestocommentReform UK's Welsh manifesto echoes Conservative proposals while leaving the spending cuts needed to fund its tax ambitions unspecified.5 March 2026
Initial response to the Welsh Conservatives’ manifestocommentA tax-cutting manifesto lacking a credible plan for the accompanying spending cuts.3 March 2026
Welsh Elections 2026: What are the parties’ plans on tax, spending and the economy?event 23 April 2026 at 12:00 A joint webinar with the Welsh Election Study and the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the Welsh party manifestos and spending plans.
Welsh Elections 2026: Tax, spending and the economy (Bangor)event 30 April 2026 at 18:00 Join us at this event as experts discuss the current fiscal landscape and analyse the proposals put forward by Wales’s political parties.
Welsh Elections 2026: tax, spending and the economy (Cardiff)event 1 May 2026 at 18:00 Join us at this event as experts discuss the current fiscal landscape and analyse the proposals put forward by Wales’s political parties.
The tough choices facing Wales’s next governmentpodcastA look at Welsh funding, tax powers, public services and the hard fiscal trade-offs facing whoever forms the next government.15 April 2026
New Welsh Government will face big fiscal challenges as it seeks to implement its policy prioritiescommentThe new Plaid Cymru government faces a difficult fiscal outlook – and the need to find common ground with other parties.19 May 2026
An emerging cross-party consensus on plans for Welsh schoolscommentThis comment compares the political parties’ main proposals for schools in Wales at the upcoming 2026 Welsh elections.24 April 2026
Labour market, living standards and poverty trends in WalesreportWales’s employment rate is falling further behind the rest of the UK, posing a challenge for the next Welsh Government1 April 2026
Wales’s employment rate is falling further behind the rest of the UK, posing a challenge for the next Welsh Governmentpress releaseWales's post-pandemic employment gap with the rest of the UK is widening, putting pressure on living standards and Welsh Government finances.1 April 2026
The Welsh Government’s record on tax and benefit policyreportWales leads on council tax revaluation – but has followed England on a range of ill-advised tax policy changes20 March 2026
Wales leads on council tax revaluation – but has followed England on a range of ill-advised tax policy changespress releaseIn several areas Wales has been a follower on tax policy, mirroring ill-advised tax policies in England20 March 2026
English hospitals are outperforming those in Scotland and WalescommentEnglish hospital services are in a relatively poor state - yet still look substantially better on many measures than those in Scotland and Wales20 March 2026
Public service spending and performance in WalesreportWelsh health and education systems are underperforming – with cuts to spending on some public services likely post-election.10 March 2026
Welsh health and educational systems are underperformingpress releaseWelsh health and education services are performing worse than before the pandemic and lag behind England10 March 2026
Recent changes and the future outlook for Welsh Government fundingreportWales receives relatively more funding than it should according to available needs assessments – but these are nearly 20 years old and need updating.24 February 2026
Next Welsh Government faces a challenging funding outlook – but ‘needs-based’ funding could make things worsepress releaseWelsh Government funding growth is set to slow, creating difficult trade-offs on tax and spending for the next Senedd.24 February 2026
What is devolved to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd?explainerPoliticians in Holyrood and Cardiff Bay make decisions on some but not all public policies, taxes and areas of public spending.10 February 2026
How are the Scottish and Welsh Governments funded?explainerFunding from the UK government is the largest source of funding for both the Scottish and Welsh Governments.10 February 2026
The Barnett formulaexplainerAn explanation of the 'Barnett formula' used in funding arrangements for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.10 February 2026
Block grant adjustmentsexplainerWhat are block grant adjustments and how are they calculated?10 February 2026
Devolved borrowing and reservesexplainerWhat borrowing and reserves powers do the Scottish and Welsh Governments have?10 February 2026
Block grant adjustments explainer What are block grant adjustments and how are they calculated? 10 February 2026
Devolved borrowing and reserves explainer What borrowing and reserves powers do the Scottish and Welsh Governments have? 10 February 2026
The Barnett formula explainer An explanation of the 'Barnett formula' used in funding arrangements for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. 10 February 2026
New Welsh Government will face big fiscal challenges as it seeks to implement its policy priorities comment The new Plaid Cymru government faces a difficult fiscal outlook – and the need to find common ground with other parties. 19 May 2026
While their visions for the next four years differ, Wales’s main parties have one thing in common: the need to be more upfront about fiscal reality comment While their visions differ, all parties’ plans would add to the fiscal challenges facing the next Welsh Government – albeit to very different extents 23 April 2026
Welsh health and educational systems are underperforming press release Welsh health and education services are performing worse than before the pandemic and lag behind England 10 March 2026
Long-run trends in corporate investment and leverage in the UK: A decomposition working paper Since the 2008, the UK has experienced persistently weak productivity and corporate investment alongside a sustained decline in corporate leverage. 1 October 2026
The unintended consequences of infrastructure development journal article I investigate the social costs imposed by poor implementation of public infrastructure. 23 September 2026
Discretion versus algorithms: bureaucrats, tax equity and acceptability working paper We study how replacing bureaucrats’ discretion with algorithmic assessment affects the accuracy, equity, and public acceptance of tax decisions. 11 May 2026
