This tax buoyancy is set to continue, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
The Foreign Office has commissioned a report on the impact of the immigration from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
Martin Weale, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, told the BBC that the government's view was "on the optimistic side".
The UK economy contracted by 0.3% in the last three months of 2012, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).
Angus Armstrong, of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and a former senior Treasury official, suggests this could help remove any doubt.
Meanwhile, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research said the UK was on the brink of its first full year of recession since 1991.
Hard on the heels of this report came some damaging headlines based on research presented to the Royal Economic Society's annual conference by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
Jonathan Portes, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said there had been a long history of youth unemployment in the UK, but it had got considerably worse in the last couple of years.
By contrast, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research foresaw in July that the saving ratio would rise to 6.1% this year and 8.9% in 2010, resulting in a further fall in consumer spending next year, of 1.1%.
The other view, perhaps expressed most eloquently by Jonathan Portes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, is that the government's low borrowing costs are a manifestation of the UK's economic stagnation and lousy growth prospects (see here).
Jonathan Portes, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, told the BBC that people "coming from outside the UK, and especially people coming from outside the European Union, are significantly less likely than British nationals, and people born here, to claim benefits".
BBC: David Cameron talks tough over European migrants' benefits - BBC News
There is perhaps a more fundamental point, made this morning by Jonathan Portes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research - which is that one of the main reasons the government can borrow more cheaply than for a century is that the economy is so weak that investors expect interest rates to remain incredibly low for years.
Dr Arkhom Termpittayapaisith , Secretary-General of the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) and of the Research and Development Institute of Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (RSEPF) will deliver the keynote lecture.
Earlier on Thursday, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research said there was a very real threat of the UK falling back into recession.
Ed Balls, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research and some others think the weak state of the economy is partly Mr Osborne's fault, or at least something he ought to have taken more account of in drawing up his original plan.
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