The unfairness of the budget is shown in microcosm in the proposed changes to corporation tax. Over the next four years the top rate of
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I’m told others shared this budget experience: the web in London was mighty slow. Getting a signal on WiFi really hard. Can the budget have
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  I’d normally expect to blog quite heavily here after the budget. But I did so many blogs for other people (TUC, Forbes, Compass, even
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I’d normally expect to blog quite heavily here after the budget. But I did so many blogs for other people (TUC, Forbes, Compass, even the
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So we have a new bank levy — to be charged on bank assets. The consequence is obvious: banks want lend. That’s the last thing
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Am sharing an office with Andrew Holdenby of Reform who is jumping with delight at every benefit cut announced — laughing out loud with delight.
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I’ll be commenting live on the budget on Twitter — follow me at RichardJMurphy and #junebudget

The wealthy always offer the excuse that they’ve paid a lot of tax when caught using tax havens / secrecy jurisdictions. That’s what Liliane Bettencourt,
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Even the FT gets the unfairness of today’s budget. As it reports: Mr Osborne will set out a “Budget for a parliament”. But he will
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