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<p>The Treasury regularly publishes detailed analysis on the cumulative impact of
policy decisions on tax, welfare and public spending on households of different incomes.
The government also carefully considers the impact of its decisions on those sharing
protected characteristics - including at Budgets and other fiscal events - in line
with both its legal obligations and with its strong commitment to promoting fairness.</p><p>Our
statement concerning income sharing reflects our reservations about producing cumulative
analysis of the impact of tax and spending decisions on vulnerable groups beneath
household level (for instance, by gender). This analysis often requires unreasonable
assumptions about how income is shared within households. As independent experts at
the Institute for Fiscal Studies have said, “because most people live in households
with others, and we don't know how incomes are shared, it is very hard to look at
effects separately for many men and women.”</p>
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