We present the first consistent estimates of what has happened to Ministry of Justice funding since the early 2000s and put ...

A submission by IFS researchers Kate Ogden and David Phillips to a government consultation on the principles and objectives of council funding reform.

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

Scotland’s Budget for 2025–26, published in December, announced an immediate increase in the surcharge in land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) on the purchase of second and rental homes, from 6% ...

“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.

Oh dear. I fear I may be turning into my namesake, a certain former prime minister. This week I’ve been feeling very much like I want to have my cake and eat it. I’ve also been getting rather ...

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