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[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

#IFSGreenBudget EVENT: Reforming training and skills policy

Thurs 12 Oct 2023 | 10 - 11:15am | Online

We present new research on England's approach to investing in adult education, with Simon Field, and Mary Mahoney ().

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[David Phillips @fiscalphillips]

🚨 With just 1 day to go before the 5th @theIFS @ODI_Global @WorldBank tax conference, I'm really pleased our special #TaxDev #FiscalStudies symposium on global tax equity based on presentations at our 4th conference is now online. A thread🧵[1/5]

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[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

The 15-year freeze to the parental earnings threshold for maintenance loans means many students qualify for much less support than they would have done in previous years.

From and 's English student loans system's explainer:

[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

Our #TaxDev conference with and on the political economy of the public finances starts this Thursday.

📺Register to watch online here:

[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

Proposed reforms to council tax in Scotland would further reduce the regressivity of the tax.

But they could and should go further and they fail to grasp the real nettle: the use of massively outdated property values.

Read ' comment:

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

Never thought a podcast I was hosting would have “what happens to the pigs” as introductory line…

This really is a fun and fascinating listen.

[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

"Unless levels of tax increase substantially, a reduction in the scope of the public services that the British state provides is likely inevitable."

Read and Isaac Delestre's report with on tax and public finances:

[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

"From council tax to National Insurance, from VAT to environmental levies there are few corners of the British tax system that are not in urgent need of repair."

Read Isaac Delestre's article on the state of the UK tax system for :

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

More Friday cheer from me. Sorry.

[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

Many students get much less up-front support from the NHS Bursary than they would from the general student loans system, as maintenance loans for living costs are cut by more than the extra bursary.

Read 's -funded comment:

[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

"The time and energy spent on [fiscal] events would be better-focused on setting longer-term strategies, consulting on reforms and improving the policymaking process."

in on the problem with too-frequent fiscal events:

[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

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[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

"It was really only the asset-rich and older generations who prospered through the 2010s as interest rates hit rock bottom. For younger generations high house prices, stagnant earnings and, for some, benefit cuts, all took their toll."

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[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

This week Professor Robert Miller (Carnegie Mellon) is giving the Lectures: An Introduction to Structural Econometrics at .

Find out more about the masterclass here:

[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

"Right now, it is younger generations who are again bearing the brunt of economic failure."

Read 's column in on which generations have been hit hardest in recent years, now free to read here:

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

And yet the only big spending policy to which both main parties are committed post election is to maintain the pension triple lock.

(Read this article also to discover my swimming habits, card games I play and my exact age…).

[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

📅 Join us on Thurs 13 July at 11am for our online launch event of our flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK, funded by .

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[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

LIVE NOW: What do pensions freedoms mean for financing retirement?

📺 Watch our event on how people access their defined contribution pension wealth with , , Nigel Peaple and Nick Flynn, funded by IFS Retirement Savings Consortium:

[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

NEW: More than four in ten people with defined contribution pensions approaching retirement say they don’t have a plan for accessing their savings.

Read and ’s new report funded by the IFS Retirement Savings Consortium:

[Han Heun @HanHeun2]

Leverhulme Lectures: An Introduction to Structural Econometrics

3 July – 5 July 2023 |

Next week visiting Professor Robert Miller (Carnegie Mellon) will be giving lectures on structural economics. Find out more and sign up here: