Scotland’s Tax Strategy is welcome but says little concrete about tax policy. And some actual tax policy is divorced from any ...

“The government yesterday published the final local government finance settlement, which confirmed final funding allocations ...

We estimate local housing supply elasticities for 325 local authorities and 6,788 census tract areas in England.

Confusion is built into our approach to net zero. We need to be more pragmatic about whether emissions will genuinely be new.

The government spent billions on support to help households with their energy bills in 2022–23. Could a better-designed ...

We discuss the economic consequences of tariffs, why governments use them, and whether they actually achieve their intended ...

We apply our method to a fixed-effect model of team production and obtain estimates of complementarity in production.

How will the latest plans for spending in 2024–25 boost the amount that the Scottish Government has to spend next year and ...

This response to a UK parliamentary inquiry assesses how the Scottish Government is funded, including via the Barnett formula ...

In-year top-ups mean big increases in Scottish NHS spending this year – but that means plans for 2025–26 now look relatively ...

It is now 66 for both men and women. Between April 2026 and March 2028 it will rise to 67.

It was under Dick Taverne’s lead that the modern IFS began to take shape. The Council was formed, funding was secured and a ...