Budget
A Desperate Budget
No good will come of it. That was a desperate Budget. A cut in employers’ National Insurance contributions for small companies, worth up to £2,000 a year for each employer (but not the employers of nannies). Paid for by some tax-that-isn’t-a-tax on the second state pension in 2016.
A cut in beer duty and a freeze [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 20 March 2013 at 6:20 pm
Ed Balls on the Budget
Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, adopted quite a good tone of welcoming many of the things in the Budget in this BBC News discussion this afternoon.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 20 March 2013 at 5:29 pm
Suggestions for the Budget 2013: Simplifying the tax system and stimulating growth
With the Chancellor’s Budget almost upon us, many businesses and indeed individuals across the country are speculating about what George Osborne will announce and how this will directly impact upon them.
By Stephen Herring | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 20 March 2013 at 9:00 am
The Budget: Red Boxes and Booze!
It’s the traditions that make the Budget interesting. But today’s won’t be as traditional as you’d hope.
By Simon Read | The Money Blog | Wednesday, 20 March 2013 at 8:00 am
Consumers’ message to Osborne: help us cope with household bills that have climbed 25%
The Chancellor has a chance to help the millions hit by soaring home energy and car costs in next week’s Budget. Where have the increases hit hardest?
By Simon Read | The Money Blog | Thursday, 14 March 2013 at 9:54 am
Budget 2013: cut VAT on building repairs to boost the economy
Official figures released this morning show that Britain’s construction industry is under pressure. The good news is that it managed growth of just 0.9 per cent in the final three months of 2012, breaking a year-long run of decline. But January’s figures revealed a 6.3 per cent slide in output, putting the industry in danger [...]
By Simon Read | The Money Blog | Friday, 8 March 2013 at 11:05 am
The Part-Time Chancellors
The Treasury select committee has complained that George Osborne has made the Autumn Statement a second Budget every year.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 29 January 2013 at 5:55 pm
Autumn Statement: Osborne’s deficit dissembling
George Osborne had a surprise for us all in his Autumn Statement today
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 5 December 2012 at 6:37 pm
How to live the sweet life on a budget
Are you like me? Are you fed up watching celebrities, politicians and socially awkward computer nerds live the sweet life while you’re home alone, elbow deep in a bag of no-brand Doritos? Are you jealous of rich people with their designer clothes and private jets and unreasonably hot girlfriends?
By DeAnne Smith | Arts, Notebook | Monday, 30 July 2012 at 12:00 am
Bullingdon Club: The politics of Posh
In the first of a series of blogs this week looking at the politics of class, Alastair Campbell discusses Laura Wade’s Posh. The play, which, if any comparisons with the notoriously elite Bullingdon Club are drawn (of which Conservative trio David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson were all members) opens a more disturbing concern than our political leaders not knowing the price of milk. Last year the Prime Minister denied that there were similarities between the club he was famously a member of, and the destructive behaviour witnessed in the summer riots.
By Alastair Campbell | Eagle Eye, Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 25 June 2012 at 12:40 am
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