The new Chancellor faces a difficult fiscal inheritance. Her choices on tax and spending at this first Budget could define the rest of the parliament. We set out the major challenges facing the adult ...

A panel of scientific experts is set to provide education policy makers with advice on strategic and emerging issues.

The budget coming up in a few weeks will be one of the big moments for Labour to set out their policy agenda.

Carl is Deputy Director of the IFS, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an editor of the annual IFS Green Budget and a Director of the Pensions Review. His research includes issues around the ...

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 ...

Each year at IFS we recruit talented economists. We specialise in the microeconomic analysis of public policy, bridging the gap between purely academic research and issues of practical policy design ...