There have been increasing calls for reform of Plan 2 student loans, but there are no easy options for the Chancellor.

The government has decided to abolish the Carbon Price Support. This is a welcome development in the taxation of carbon ...

We examine the effect of the UK’s ‘Help to Buy’ schemes on housing affordability using a new approach to uncover effects for ...

CORRECTION: A previous version of this response stated that increasing the marginal rate of LBTT on values above £1 million ...

A look at Welsh funding, tax powers, public services and the hard fiscal trade-offs facing whoever forms the next government.

Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and Census data, we study multigenerational correlations in education across ...

Demand-side policies which relax borrowing constraints for homebuyers, with the aim of increasing homeownership, are ...

David Phillips, head of devolved and local government finance at the IFS, said: ‘While the Scottish Labour manifesto comes in at a beefy 98 pages, the big tax cuts or expansions in service provision ...

I prove that, in a simple but general framework, expected pass-through is unchanged by the presence of focal pricing constraints.

Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, he worked for ...

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 ...