Council tax support (CTS) is a benefit that assists the poorest households in paying their council tax, by providing a reduction on their bills. It operates separat ...

IFS researchers respond to the Chancellor’s Spring Forecast, which was presented against an uncertain global backdrop with ...

Reform UK's Welsh manifesto echoes Conservative proposals while leaving the spending cuts needed to fund its tax ambitions ...

Spring Forecast: headline numbers look steady but higher energy prices could lift UK inflation, rates and borrowing faster than expected.

We study the role of Gender Role Attitudes (GRA)—beliefs about appropriate roles for men and women—in marital sorting and intra-household allocations.

We analyze the impact of the EU’s Directive on Public Country-by-Country Reporting, where multinational corporations must disclose key financial data.

David Phillips, head of devolved and local government finance at the IFS, said: “The Welsh Conservatives’ flagship proposals are reductions to three of Wales’s devolved taxes: the Welsh rates of ...

Join us at this online event as experts reflect on ten years of tax devolution and discuss what the future holds for taxes across the UK.

From the start of April, the state pension age will start rising from 66, reaching 67 in early 2028. This upcoming change was announced in 2011 and legislated in 2014, in response to higher life ...

The probability of entering the public sector rises with education, and this paper documents that this educational gradient has strengthened.

LGiU is a think tank and local authority membership organisation as well as a registered charity; and what we are about is pretty simple. We are all about people and the places where we live: we are ...