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  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    UK Budget
    The UK chancellor is caught in a dilemma, as his Budget shows

    Continuing to muddle through, massage the figures and implement bad policies will only make the problems worse

  • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
    ReviewEconomics books
    Follow the Money by Paul Johnson — an exasperated guide to Britain’s fiscal affairs

    The IFS director’s enthusiastic, informed guide offers much analysis — but little reassurance

  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    Desperately hard choices lie ahead for Sunak and Hunt

    The cost of living crisis combined with the fiscal challenge pits support for households against even higher borrowing

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    News in-depthUK labour disputes
    Looming wave of UK industrial action unnerves government

    ‘If we get this wrong, we risk a de facto general strike,’ minister says, as anger builds over public sector pay

  • Friday, 13 December, 2019
    UK general election
    UK Conservatives’ tax pledges could come back to bite them

    The party will have to be more generous than their manifesto implied

  • Monday, 22 October, 2018
    UK Budget
    UK chancellor’s Budget choice that promises to define his career

    Philip Hammond promised spending ‘envelope’ will determine whether austerity is over

  • Monday, 13 August, 2018
    Tax
    Britain’s taxation system is an inefficient mess

    Demographic change means that policies will have to adapt to an ageing population

  • Tuesday, 13 March, 2018
    UK public finances
    The debt numbers do not justify Hammond’s ‘Tiggerish’ outlook

    Good times are not here again, despite political pressure to loosen the pursestrings

  • Friday, 12 May, 2017
    UK tax
    The rich are different but they pay a lot of tax

    Wealth is a combination of cash and assets and many of us have more than we think

  • Monday, 27 February, 2017
    Property sector
    Business rate rises do not happen often enough

    What we really need is far-reaching reform and the introduction of a land value tax

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2016
    UK business & economy
    UK facing ‘dreadful’ wage stagnation: 3 charts from the IFS
  • Friday, 9 September, 2016
    UK retail results
    Wetherspoon’s Tim Martin: We don’t need trade deal with EU
  • Thursday, 17 March, 2016
    UK Budget
    Osborne faces rebellion over cuts to disability benefits

    Signs of climbdown after Tory MP says measure has ‘zero chance’ of passage through the Commons

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2016
    UK Budget
    IFS warns on dark outlook for public finances

    Think-tank says chancellor is running out of ‘wriggle room’

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2016
    UK Budget
    IFS criticises Budget ‘giveaways to the better off’

    Drinkers, drivers, higher earners and savers are the main winners, think-tank says

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2016
    UK Budget
    Osborne’s chances of meeting rule ‘only just higher than 50-50′
  • Friday, 11 March, 2016
    Tax
    The tax tale that ends in some being worse off as wages rise

    Lawson’s successors have killed off the UK dream of a coherent low-tax system, writes Paul Johnson

  • Monday, 8 February, 2016
    UK public finances
    UK chancellor has to break records to balance books, says IFS

    New lows required on public spending and pay in the civil service to meet targets

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2015
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    Free Lunch: Plus ça change

    Osborne’s talent for making more of the same feel less onerous

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2015
    UK business & economy
    Autumn Statement: An economist’s view from Paul Johnson

    A tight spending review but cuts to unprotected departments less than expected

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2015
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    Free Lunch: Europe, unreconstructed Premium content

    Italy’s bank rescue shows bad old ways not forgotten

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2015
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    Free Lunch: Not too much of a good thing Premium content

    The European Cental Bank is right to consider more stimulus

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2015
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    Free Lunch: The cost of destruction Premium content

    The amazing economic resilience of societies hit by terrorism

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2015
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    Free Lunch: Gold substandard Premium content

    Enthusiasts and detractors both make too much of money metallism

  • Friday, 13 November, 2015
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    Free Lunch: The long view Premium content

    Growth and inequality in the preindustrial era

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