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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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