2021 March 04

The hidden stories within Sunak’s tax predictions suggest tough times for the self employed and big income tax increases after the next election

Posted on March 4 2021

I have been playing with some of the figures in projected tax receipts published by the Office for Budget Responsibility yesterday (table 3.4 for the
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The government aims to raise the square root of diddlysquat from green bonds

Posted on March 4 2021

I take this from the Daily Mail: In other words, by offering a miserly rate of interest the government is confirming it has no interest
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There is no sign of a vaccine bounce in spending as yet

Posted on March 4 2021

The Office for National Statistics issued this chart this morning: The key indicator is the second line down – the aggregate spending. In February 2021
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Brexit is not a done deal as yet

Posted on March 4 2021

The Guardian reports this morning that: The British government has been accused of breaking international law for a second time by the European commission after
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The morning after the budget reveals a Chancellor without a strategy and out of ideas

Posted on March 4 2021

The morning after the budget is always a moment of reckoning. For George Osborne it was when things usually began to unwind, badly. Do you
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