unless spending pressures abate - even with big increases in council tax, and particularly in poorer parts of the country …

.2 billion of funding to improve the productivity of public services, including £3.4 billion for the NHS. In this report, we … for ways to improve public services without large increases in spending. Improving the productivity of public services is … often proposed as a way to achieve this. This follows the big fall in measured productivity of government services …

of tax policies but also their distributional impacts: that is, their impacts on different segments of the population …. Such evidence can promote a more equitable and welfare-enhancing tax and benefit system, helping distinguish policies which … effects on low- and middle-income households. In this context, the Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries (TaxDev …

The next government faces difficult choices on higher education funding, with tuition fees frozen and international …

municipalities. Using the quasi-random assignment, we examine whether these contributing municipalities adjust their tax setting … increase is even higher than the expansion of spending. Municipalities additionally refrain from increasing tax rates. The …

How have employment, earnings and incomes performed in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK? What drives … geographic inequalities within Scotland? …

Given that education policy is a devolved matter across the UK, a natural question to ask is how school spending per …