The Institute for Fiscal Studies says a pilot of business rate retention for English Councils has limited potential for learning about the long-term impact.
Government plans to increase the share of business rates English councils retain risk growing divergences between the funding available to different councils, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Twenty years after the birth of their first child, a woman’s hourly wage will on average be a third lower than the hourly wage of a man with a similar level of education.
The IFS says debt 'looks like a real problem for a significant minority of those on low incomes, who are not keeping up with bills and/or spending high fractions of their disposable income on debt repayment.'
The Scottish Government plans to introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol in May 2018. Minimum unit pricing is likely to increase profits for the alcohol industry, but reform of alcohol duties is likely to raise tax revenue.