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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Chancellor decided to blow the budget in his first fiscal statement, bringing forward a £45 billion package of tax cuts, the biggest for 50 years. In doing so, he rejected not just Treasury ...

Local Housing Allowance (LHA), which caps how much support is provided through the social security system to low-income private renters, was last relinked to the 30 th percentile of rents in April ...

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 ...

UK Government borrowing costs have once again been in the headlines. Recent moves have, however, been overblown: since benchmark 10-year yields peaked at post-financial-crisis highs of 4.9 per cent in ...

This briefing note sets out how a mix of benign fiscal developments and concerning economic trends leaves the Government on track to meet its fiscal rules following the 2026 Spring Forecast, but with ...