If the UK leaves the European single market, the cost to the UK economy could be as much as 4% of GDP, according to a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies.
The directors of three of the UK’s leading economic research institutions have issued a joint statement warning that a Brexit would almost certainly weaken the public finances.
Chancellor George Osborne is only on track to meet his one unbroken fiscal target thanks to some “fiddling around” with incomings and outgoings of the public purse, the Institute for Fiscal Studies...
George Osborne’s plans to get the government finances into surplus in 2019/20 are set to reduce public sector pay to the lowest level relative to the private sector for at least 25 years, an...
Local government funding cuts are to ease in the years to 2019/20 compared to the last parliament and will be more evenly distributed across authorities, an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal...
Chancellor George Osborne has been urged to use this week’s Budget to introduce reforms to the UK’s “creaking and increasingly incoherent tax system” by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies has called on George Osborne to set out where his planned £12bn in welfare cuts would fall in the first two financial years of the next parliament.