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EVENT: IFS Zooms In Live: A look ahead to the Budget
📅 Tue 20 Oct | 18:30 to 20:00 | British Library Knowledge Centre London
Join us for a special in-person recording of an episode of the IFS Zooms In podcast ahead of the Budget, looking at the choices facing the Chancellor:
NEW PODCAST: What should we expect from this year's Budget?
🎙️ In this special live edition of IFS Zooms In, @HelenMiller_IFS, @StuartAdam_IFS and @MaxWarnerIFS discuss the choices facing the Chancellor on energy bills, taxes and public spending:
🎧️ Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/budget-2…
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👇🏽also on my way - excited to bring BREAD to Mexico and looking forward to a great program and lots of discussion!
On my way to CDMX for the BREAD/@ITAM_mx /@AgendaCAF Conference on Development Economics bread-mexico-2026.github.io/ @marome1 @ImranRasul3 Looking forward to being back to ITAM and seeing a great set of papers
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New stats out today with the first official estimates of take-up for Universal Credit (UC), the UK's main means-tested benefit for working-age families.
Headline 7 in 10 people who are eligible for UC (or equivalent benefits), claim it.
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A great opportunity for any econ job market candidates to join one of the best* teams of applied economists in the UK! Work with fabulous colleagues on cutting-edge research that genuinely matters to policymaking.
(*I'm only a little biased...)
⚖️ We're recruiting a Research Economist and Postdoctoral Fellow (Crime and Justice) to join the IFS justice research team.
📆 Apply before midnight 15 Nov 2026 here:
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Want to hear why I think @WelshGovernment's reason for postponing council tax revaluation is nonsense?
Listen to @BBCWales #Walescast with @felicityxevans and @jamswilliams85.
Refusing to phase in bill cuts (like bill increases) means no cuts at all!
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0phwy…
⚖️ We're recruiting a Research Economist and Postdoctoral Fellow (Crime and Justice) to join the IFS justice research team.
📆 Apply before midnight 15 Nov 2026 here:
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"You're looking at £35 billion of pressure."
🎙️ @HelenMiller_IFS summarises the choices facing the Chancellor ahead of next week’s Budget, and explains that if he does nothing "inflation will make the choice for him", in our recent podcast:
🎧 Listen to the full episode here: ifs.org.uk/articles/chancell…
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New Treasury stats out today suggest that departments made significant efficiencies and savings in 2025–26.
They report savings of 4.1% from ‘efficiency, savings, and productivity’, well above the 2024 Autumn Budget target of 2%.
What should we take from these figures? 🧵
ALT Front page of HMT report
Postponing council tax revaluation yet again is unjustifiable and risks entrenching an out-of-date system in Wales and beyond.
@StuartAdam_IFS and @fiscalphillips respond to the Welsh Government's announcement that it no longer intends to go ahead with a council tax revaluation in April 2028
Read their full response on the IFS website: ifs.org.uk/articles/welsh-go…
Missed our IFS Annual Lecture by Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion last week?
🖥️ Watch back his full lecture on whether ideas are becoming harder to find, and whether innovation can still drive economic growth, on YouTube here: youtube.com/watch?v=nEX1x0CH…
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Horrible decision from Welsh ministers not to go ahead with a much-needed update of property valuations for council tax in 2028, having previously voted for the legislation. Inexcusable. 1/3 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6ly…
Can the government afford to spend 3% of GDP on defence?
🎙️ @HelenMiller_IFS and @beeboileau discuss what rising defence spending could mean for other areas of government, from our latest podcast on the spending pressures facing the Chancellor ahead of next week's Budget:
🎧 Listen to the full episode here: ifs.org.uk/articles/chancell…
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We set out the challenges and choices facing the Chancellor as he heads into his first Budget in the 2026 Green Budget.
You can read it all here: ifs.org.uk/collections/ifs-g…
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With interest rates and inflation expected to remain higher for longer, debt interest spending will continue to put pressure on the public finances.
Inflation will also add to pressure on public service spending plans, making this the real challenge for John Healey at the Budget
