As the Guardian notes this morning: More than half of the increase in disability benefits is due to more mental health claims, according to research.
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For once the IFS are on the same side – by keeping a significant distance from Labour’s dire economic plans
I have been pleased to hear Paul Johnson and Carl Emerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies criticise both the Labour and Conservative parties’ economic
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The IFS says the next government will fail because it won’t be able to cut the national debt, without ever questioning why doing so should have any priority when government services are failing
The FT features a headline this morning that says: This refers to a new Institute for Fiscal Studies report on the likely fiscal inheritance of
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Abolishing the VAT exemption for services supplied by private schools might raise £1.6 billion in tax a year
I have this morning published what might be one of the least surprising proposals to be made in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. I suggest
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies accepts that neoliberalism has failed most people and seems to think that there is nothing that we can do about it
The Institute for Fiscal Studies published a damning indictment of neoliberalism in the UK this week. It began by saying: Wage and earnings inequality has
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Is national insurance regressive?
I saw claims published yesterday that national insurance is not regressive. I have to say that I disagree. Based on the analysis I have done
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The IFS really should get sectoral balance accounting right or not talk about macro
The IFS and the NIESR held an event on the state if the economy this week. They published their slides. The slide pack includes this
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It’s time that people realised that interest costs are not a concern whatever the level of debt right now and it’s time that think tanks stopped saying that they are
The IFS is peddling its usual nonsense on macroeconomics this morning. In a new report They make some predictions for the economy, most of which
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Why the UK tax system is regressive – whatever the Institute for Fiscal Studies say
About a decade ago I co-authored with David Byrne of Durham University. I noticed that he picked up the cudgel I had already raised against
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