This paper estimates the responsiveness of retirement saving to tax incentives for employees in Great Britain.

Why do so few people move from incapacity benefits into work? What does this mean for government plans to get more people ...

What Reeves needs to do is to think about the tax base — the measure of gains on which the tax is charged — as well as the ...

Jonathan is an Assistant Professor and the Helen and O.N. Mitchell, Jr Faculty Fellow in Real Estate at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University and a Research Associate at IFS and cemmap. His ...

David Phillips says that even if chancellor Rachel Reeves manages to avoid making cuts, councils will still need a laser-like ...

Since the new government took office, there has been significant focus on the spending pressures facing departments in the current financial year, 2024–25. According to the Treasury, these pressures ...

1. The UK’s economic performance over the past two decades is hard to describe as anything other than a policy failure. Productivity growth has been dire – with per-worker growth over the past decade ...

The Chancellor has inherited an unenviable public finance situation. Taxes are at a historic high and yet debt is high, rising and only barely forecast to decline in five years’ time, while many ...

Robert is Deputy Director at the IFS. His research focuses primarily on the labour market, the drivers of income and wealth inequalities, and the design of the welfare system. Currently this includes ...

Giulio is an IFS Research Associate and a professor in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. His main research fields are theoretical labour economics and ...

David is an Associate Director and helps lead two main areas of research at the Institute. First is work on devolved and local government finance, with a particular focus on the distribution of ...