David Kingman reports on the launch of IF’s Intergenerational Fairness Index, which assesses how intergenerational unfairness has worsened in the UK during the last 20 years
Category: Taxation
The Winter Fuel Allowance: why young people should get hot under the collar
David Kingman argues that the Winter Fuel Allowance is extremely inefficient – and unfair on the younger generation
The Default Retirement Age and Lump of Labour Fallacy
Antony Mason tries to untangle the intergenerational outcome of the increasing number of retirement-age workers in the labour market
Sharing the cake – an intergenerational dilemma
Angus Hanton shows how the cake analogy is a useful way of seeing the difficulties of apportioning the burden of intergenerational legacies, such as carbon emissions
Cashflow mentality exposes government short-termism
Angus Hanton points to the negative intergenerational implications in four key areas of government policy
Private pensions and the hoarding of housing: A vicious circle
David Kingman explores the interaction between poor returns on private pensions and intergenerational unfairness in the housing market
Pensions and intergenerational justice: who cares?
Angus Hanton explores why so few of the younger generation are prepared to invest sensibly in their old age
How much are we willing to sacrifice for the future?
Martha Bicket, a postgraduate student at Imperial College London, asks, when it comes to discount rates, how low can we go?
The light taxation of wealthy pensioners
Angus Hanton argues that tax changes could ease the burden of meeting increasing costs as the population ages
Intergenerational Accounting in the UK
Angus Hanton explains why the UK needs to start looking at its assets and liabilities from an intergenerational perspective