We examine the challenges facing public services and the Chancellor’s public spending options at the forthcoming Budget and ...

Growth has been better than expected this year, but the UK’s recovery is not yet secure. Structural changes will require ...

We explore why CGT reform is necessary and how changes could make the tax system fairer, more efficient and more ...

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has confirmed the reappointment of IFS Deputy Director Carl Emmerson - alongside ...

All the analysis so far from our IFS Green Budget 2024, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and in partnership with Citi. Life expectancy gaps between gender and income groups are large and generate ...

Agar is a Professor of Economics at the University of Venice and a Research Fellow of the IFS. She has investigated the behaviour of individuals and household both in the area of consumption and ...

Young people at risk of getting involved in violence are those in most of need of therapeutic support, but most unlikely to receive it. The Your Choice programme aims to shift how such therapeutic ...

There is much speculation that the new government is considering increasing rates of capital gains tax (CGT) as a way of raising revenue. But simply raising rates is not the right route to take. The ...

We study the impacts of high-quality, center-based early childhood education on low income children in Colombia, tracking ...

The poverty rate is a useful summary measure of how low-income families are faring, comparing their total household income with a specified poverty line. For example, a couple with no children would ...

Reversing the two-child limit would be a quick and cost-effective fix for bringing large numbers of children above the poverty line. But the benefit cap would wipe out the gains for some children in ...