IFS Green Budget 2023 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (2024)

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"The bind is a real one. Both we and our political leaders need to face up to it." Paul Johnson writes for The Times.

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The fight against inflation continues to dominate the global economic policy agenda.

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The Chancellor is in a fiscal bind as low growth and high debt interest payments limit any room for manoeuvre in the forthcoming Autumn Statement.

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The UK economy remains stuck between weak growth on the one hand and the risk of persistently high inflation on the other.

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Pressures on both revenue and spending are skewed to add to borrowing over the next few years, and threaten the ‘centrality’ of official forecasts.

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In the current environment of high inflation and rising interest rates, tax cuts at the upcoming Budget would be extremely difficult to justify.

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The UK has seen a significant decline in investment in adult education and training. This chapter analyses how the skills system should be reformed.

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We consider the case for and against a fiscal target for public sector net worth.

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This report discusses the temporary full-expensing policy and whether it should be made a permanent part of the corporate tax base.

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This has been the biggest tax-raising parliament since records began, pushing UK tax revenues to historically high levels.

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Chancellors don’t respond symmetrically to good and bad economic news. This represents a risk to the accuracy of official borrowing forecasts.

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We set out issues with the inheritance tax system and examine options for reform and the distributional impacts of reforming or abolishing the tax.

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The NHS workforce plan aims for a large expansion in health service staffing. We examine the potential implications for NHS funding.

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We look at the underlying economic situation facing the Chancellor following the publication of our IFS Green Budget 2023 report.

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In the current environment of high inflation and rising interest rates, tax cuts at the upcoming Budget would be extremely difficult to justify.

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IFS reaction to the Chancellor's Spring Budget.

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Chancellors don’t respond symmetrically to good and bad economic news. The result is higher debt.

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We discuss all things waiting list - What is it? How big is it? Is there a credible plan to get it back down?

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A fallback in oil and gas prices has hit Scotland’s underlying public finance position this year.

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How has public sector pay changed in recent years? Which type of workers have done better and which have done worse?

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How has public sector pay changed in recent years? Which type of workers have done better and which have done worse?

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We invite researchers from both academic and policy institutions to submit a paper or an extended abstract of two or more pages by April.

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Takeaways and meal delivery grew by more than 50% during the pandemic – and have stayed high thereafter.

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We propose a borrow-to-invest motive by which house price gains affect household spending on residential investment.