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Were we really all in it together? The distributional effects of the UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes

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  • De Agostini, Paola
  • Hills, John
  • Sutherland, Holly

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This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct (but not indirect) taxes between the systems in place in May 2010 at the time of the Election and in 2014/15. It also looks ahead to the longer-term effects of already announced changes and plans, such as the complete introduction of Universal Credit and changes to the ways benefits, pensions and tax brackets are changed (indexed) from year to year, modelling what effects these would have by 2019/20.

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  • De Agostini, Paola & Hills, John & Sutherland, Holly, 2014. "Were we really all in it together? The distributional effects of the UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 121540, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    2. Stuart Adam & James Browne, 2013. "Do the UK Government’s welfare reforms make work pay," IFS Working Papers W13/26, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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    Keywords

    deficit; reduction; cuts; fiscal; benefits; recession; crisis; coalition government; tax; universal credit;
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    JEL classification:

    • H00 - Public Economics - - General - - - General
    • I00 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General - - - General

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