Budget 2020
Today’s post takes a look at the usual speculation in advance of the Chancellor’s Budget 2020, and at what actually happened.
Category: UK Budgets
Spring Statement 2019
Today’s post takes a look at the usual speculation in advance of the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, and at what actually happened (or in this case, didn’t).
Budget 2018
Today’s post takes a look at the unusual level of speculation in advance of the Chancellor’s Budget 2018, and at what actually happened.
Budget November 2017
Today’s post is about the pre-Budget speculation, and the reality of today’s speech.
Budget 2017
Today’s post is about this afternoon’s Budget, the last ever in the spring time. Welcome to Budget 2017.
Autumn Statement 2016
Today was new Chancellor Philip Hammond’s first Budget (technically the Autumn Statement 2016) and the first major UK fiscal event since Brexit.
The Bonfire of the Taxes – IEA Report
Today’s post is about a report from the IEA on tax simplification, which claims that the UK could get rid of more than 20 levies – a veritable bonfire of the taxes.
UK budget breakdown – income and spending
Today’s post is a look at the UK’s income and expenditure expressed in terms of numbers that would make sense to most households in the UK – it’s a UK budget breakdown.
Budget 2016
Today we’re going to look behind the headlines at what yesterday’s Budget 2016 from George Osborne means for private investors in the UK.
Autumn Statement 2015 – U-turn or spin?
Yesterday saw the Autumn Statement 2015 from the Chancellor, so today we look at what surprises he sprang, and what had been expected but didn’t turn up.
Budget July 2015
We give our reaction to this year’s extra Budget. What was confirmed, what didn’t happen, and what surprises did the Chancellor spring?
