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27 March 2025
Taxes in PolicyEngine
PolicyEngine models different tax components in the UK, including direct taxes, indirect taxes, and proposed taxes.
11 March 2025
The impact of Personal Independence Payment, and freezing its level in 2025
How the disability benefit, and one reform the government is reportedly considering, affect the UK household sector.
18 March 2025
Restricting eligibility for the Personal Independence Payment Daily Living part
6 March 2025
Exempting young children from the two-child limit
Analysis of the potential impact of limiting the two-child limit to families with children under 5 years old.
28 December 2024
PolicyEngine UK in 2024: A year in review
From AI-powered analysis to election impact, we transformed policy research through technology.
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Design custom policy reforms
PolicyEngine's country models contains hundreds of customisable policy parameters and can handle structural reforms.
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See how reforms affect households
Evaluate the impact of changes to policy rules on households or entire economics within seconds, and iterate quickly over policy ideas.
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Advanced analysis with our Python packages
Dive deeper into policy impact analysis using PolicyEngine's open-source Python packages. Customize your simulations and perform advanced reforms for thorough insights, all on your own computer.
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PolicyEngine has been a really valuable addition to the UK policy space, democratising access to economic modelling and making it easier than ever to apply actual numbers to the policy debate.
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We're fully open source
All PolicyEngine models, code, and data are open source and available in their latest form on GitHub, with code, documentation and validation from over fifty open-source contributors. This is our real-time, unfiltered development.
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Our models are tested extensively
PolicyEngine's software undergoes thousands of automated tests every day to ensure our simulations produce accurate results.
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PolicyEngine's API computes policy impacts
Instantly compute taxes and benefits for any household under current or reformed policy rules, using the PolicyEngine REST API, reproducing any result in the web app.
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