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 ...

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 ...

The IFS created the Tax Law Review Committee (TLRC) in 1994. The TLRC’s remit is to keep under review the state and operation of tax law in the UK. The TLRC asks in particular whether aspects of the ...

In Britain, the headline relative in-work poverty rate steadily rose from 13.4% in 1994–95 to 18.4% in 2019–20. We study the ...

An analysis of the key design considerations and potential impacts of council tax reform in Scotland.

Lord Taverne made three crucial contributions to the IFS that formed the foundations from which it has grown.

How has the two-child limit affected child poverty and other outcomes? What options for altering this policy does the ...

Objective analysis of economic policy is more important now than it has ever been. You can join our network and help improve ...

Helen joined the IFS in 2007. She has almost two decades of experience analysing UK fiscal policy and providing trusted advice to policymakers. Her work has been published in top peer reviewed ...

We argue the change in individuals’ Lorenz ordinates—their positions in the Lorenz curve—is informative about economic ...

Since its inception in 1979, Fiscal Studies has earned a reputation around the world for publishing high-quality, original research papers in a style understandable to a wide audience. Written by ...

Yani Tyskerud is Programme Director for TaxDev. TaxDev aims to contribute to more effective tax policymaking in low- and middle-income countries through partnerships with governments and researchers.