Public finance data out today show that borrowing overshot the official forecast made at last month's Spring Statement by £15 ...

On April 15, 1975, Denis Healey, the Labour chancellor, presented his budget. An economic crisis was upon us. Inflation was ...

Upcoming increases in the minimum wage and employer NICs could make it harder for young people entering the labour force.

In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain.

We develop a tractable equilibrium model of the labour market with heterogeneous labour supply elasticities by occupation and ...

Paul Johnson, Director of the IFS, said: "This was just about the smallest fiscal event Rachel Reeves could have managed in the context of her fiscal rules and the minor forecast downgrade presented ...

The government spent around £1.1 trillion, or 40.6% of national income, on our behalf in 2023-24. This was composed of different categories of spending - e.g. health, education, and benefit spending - ...

This week, we’re looking at corporation tax, which was introduced 60 years ago. Across the decades there have been no shortage of predictions that corporate tax revenues will decline, and yet the tax ...