Residential property taxes are now so far removed from modern house prices that Londoners are under-paying by £3.1 billion relative to the value of their homes – with the rest of England over-paying ...

All this reinforces the challenges facing the Chancellor in his first Budget. Conflict in the Middle East has pushed up the cost of servicing the national debt, which is likely to deliver a £10-15 ...

This briefing note examines how England taxes residential property and sets out a roadmap for replacing Council Tax and Stamp Duty with a system that is fairer, more efficient, and does not penalise ...

The Prime Minister’s announcement that he will end the triple lock on the State Pension at the start of the next parliament is good news for the public finances, and recycling the savings into social ...

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, significant issues have emerged with the ONS’s Labour Force Survey (LFS), which is the main source of the UK’s official labour market data. These issues have ...

Mike is Deputy Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation. He is also a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Department of Social Policy at the LSE. Between 2011 and 2020, he was a Professor of ...

As part of our commitment to increasing diversity within both our own workforce and the economic policy making sector, the Resolution Foundation is offering a paid training placement for recent ...

If you’re heading to the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences, please join us for discussions on preparing workers for the age of AI, helping young people into work, education or training, ...

Abolishing the two-child limit would be the most cost-effective way to reduce child poverty; if it is not scrapped, we project that 4.8 million children (34 per cent) will be in poverty by 2029-30, ...

British household wealth has been on a rollercoaster ride in recent years. In Q1 2024, it was estimated to be worth more than six times GDP (630 per cent), more than 50 per cent higher than the last ...

Nearly one million young people aged 16-24 in the UK are currently not in education, employment or training (NEET) – the highest level in over a decade. While the Government’s new Youth Guarantee ...

In an election year, jobs and benefits are often centre stage. Alongside the UK’s stagnant wage growth, there is one big issue that will face the next government: the rises in economic inactivity and ...