Scotland’s Tax Strategy is welcome but says little concrete about tax policy. And some actual tax policy is divorced from any ...

“The government yesterday published the final local government finance settlement, which confirmed final funding allocations ...

Confusion is built into our approach to net zero. We need to be more pragmatic about whether emissions will genuinely be new.

The government spent billions on support to help households with their energy bills in 2022–23. Could a better-designed ...

We estimate local housing supply elasticities for 325 local authorities and 6,788 census tract areas in England.

How do changes in UK government revenues over time compare with what has been seen in other advanced countries?

It was under Dick Taverne’s lead that the modern IFS began to take shape. The Council was formed, funding was secured and a ...

We apply our method to a fixed-effect model of team production and obtain estimates of complementarity in production.

How will the latest plans for spending in 2024–25 boost the amount that the Scottish Government has to spend next year and ...

Between October 2022 and March 2023, as energy prices surged, the government spent £35 billion (more than 1% of annual GDP) on two schemes to support households. These schemes were a 39% energy price ...