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14 Apr 22
The government’s allocation of a post-Brexit funding pot was a missed opportunity to reform economic development allocations, with many regions receiving cuts, according to experts.
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16 Mar 22
The government’s decision to freeze income tax bands will provide the government with £20bn additional revenue a year, more than double initial forecasts, according to the Institute for Fiscal...
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4 Feb 22
Logistical and software issues are likey to make it challenging for councils to deliver the government’s £150 council tax rebates to help consumers with soaring energy prices, according to CIPFA.
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11 Jan 22
English council’s finances were not as badly affected by Covid-19 as had been expected, according to new research – but the authors warned against government complacency in the coming years amid the...
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13 Sep 21
Healthcare services in England will likely require multi-billion-pound top-ups over the medium term if they are to avoid spending reductions, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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6 Sep 21
An expected national insurance hike would be a ‘poor way’ to finance long-awaited social care reforms, according to a group of economists.
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7 Jun 21
The Treasury’s decision to reject a £15bn school recovery programme suggests a broader problem with the UK’s budgeting framework, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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26 Apr 21
Manifestos from Scotland’s largest parties do not honestly reckon with the devolved government’s likely financial situation in the coming years, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies researchers.
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31 Mar 21
Funding for the Scottish Government’s day-to-day spending in 2021-22 is nearly a third higher per person than in England, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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8 Sep 20
As director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson has overseen a period of ‘extraordinary’ lockdown output from his organisation, charting Covid-19’s economic impact.
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18 May 20
The coronavirus outbreak, and the policy response to mitigate its consequences, will have ramifications for public finances that will far outlast the immediate public health crisis. Although the full...
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23 Apr 19
Universal credit will see 1.9 million claimants lose at least £1,000 each year compared to the previous benefits system, a think-tank has said.
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4 Oct 18
CIPFA and the Institute for Fiscal Studies recently hosted a round tabled debate on the questions and issues thrown up by the government’s fair funding review. Vivienne Russell reports.
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9 Mar 17
Hiking up national insurance contributions for the self-employed is a “sensible” change to taxation but not enough, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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5 Mar 15
Council spending in England has been cut by almost a quarter on a per person basis since 2009/10, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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24 Nov 14
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has today warned that number of people in poverty is likely to start increasing due to caps in the uprating of benefits coupled with an increase in wage rates.
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5 Nov 14
The number of people in absolute poverty in the UK could be as much as 300,000 more than government estimates due to the higher rates of inflation experienced by poor households, the Institute for...
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3 Jun 14
The European Commission has urged the government to reform council tax to remove ‘distortions’ caused by basing the system on property values that are more than two decades old.
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28 May 14
The Treasury has seriously mishandled the new fee regime for universities, resulting in zero expected savings for the public coffers. And the chancellor’s scrapping of controls on student...
14 Apr 22The government’s allocation of a post-Brexit funding pot was a missed opportunity to reform economic development allocations, with many regions receiving cuts, according to experts.
16 Mar 22The government’s decision to freeze income tax bands will provide the government with £20bn additional revenue a year, more than double initial forecasts, according to the Institute for Fiscal...
4 Feb 22Logistical and software issues are likey to make it challenging for councils to deliver the government’s £150 council tax rebates to help consumers with soaring energy prices, according to CIPFA.
11 Jan 22English council’s finances were not as badly affected by Covid-19 as had been expected, according to new research – but the authors warned against government complacency in the coming years amid the...
13 Sep 21Healthcare services in England will likely require multi-billion-pound top-ups over the medium term if they are to avoid spending reductions, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
7 Jun 21The Treasury’s decision to reject a £15bn school recovery programme suggests a broader problem with the UK’s budgeting framework, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
26 Apr 21Manifestos from Scotland’s largest parties do not honestly reckon with the devolved government’s likely financial situation in the coming years, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies researchers.
8 Sep 20As director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson has overseen a period of ‘extraordinary’ lockdown output from his organisation, charting Covid-19’s economic impact.
18 May 20The coronavirus outbreak, and the policy response to mitigate its consequences, will have ramifications for public finances that will far outlast the immediate public health crisis. Although the full...
23 Apr 19Universal credit will see 1.9 million claimants lose at least £1,000 each year compared to the previous benefits system, a think-tank has said.
4 Oct 18CIPFA and the Institute for Fiscal Studies recently hosted a round tabled debate on the questions and issues thrown up by the government’s fair funding review. Vivienne Russell reports.
9 Mar 17Hiking up national insurance contributions for the self-employed is a “sensible” change to taxation but not enough, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
5 Mar 15Council spending in England has been cut by almost a quarter on a per person basis since 2009/10, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
24 Nov 14The Institute for Fiscal Studies has today warned that number of people in poverty is likely to start increasing due to caps in the uprating of benefits coupled with an increase in wage rates.
28 May 14The Treasury has seriously mishandled the new fee regime for universities, resulting in zero expected savings for the public coffers. And the chancellor’s scrapping of controls on student...
