Tax and spending
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George Osborne tells John Humphrys on Radio 4’s Today that BBC reports are rewind of 2010 cutbacks coverage that wrongly predicted return to ‘George Orwell’ world
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The chancellor has accused his critics of hyperbole, but his autumn statement leaves him little room for manoeuvre
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Institute for Fiscal Studies statement prompts chancellor to condemn ‘hyperbolic news coverage’ on spending plans
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Business secretary pushes for more data from Office for Budget Responsibility before Commons vote on new budget charter
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Gaby Hinsliff: It’s a warning light flashing. In a healthy society parents would be happy to let their children cope on their own
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Editorial: George Osborne’s plans would roll back the state to the 1930s, and puff up household debt beyond bubble levels. It is neither a desirable nor a likely mix – yet it reigns unchallenged
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Letters: Those with the least, those needing essential services are staring at the precipice. It’s not only the squeezed middle but the crushed bottom we need to worry about
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Andrew Sparrow’s rolling coverage of all the reaction to the 2014 autumn statement, including George Osborne’s interviews and the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ briefings
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Institute for Fiscal Studies says scale of cuts planned by chancellor will force a ‘fundamental re-imagining of the state’
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Riches in oil and gas are failing to reduce poverty. Join a panel on Thursday 11 December, 1-3pm GMT to discuss how governments can capitalise on resources
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Chancellor's autumn statement announcement reveals duty will range from £13 per passenger on short-haul flights from UK to £97 for longest flights
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Restaurateur Andy Rea says Belfast leaders should push for lower VAT on food and drink to go with lower corporation tax
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Tenant Helen Kunda, 29, was hoping for more affordable homes and says cutting stamp duty makes little difference to her
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George Osborne warns that scale of Scottish devolution ‘makes case for English votes for English laws unanswerable’
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Rolling coverage and full reaction and analysis as George Osborne delivers the final autumn statement of this parliament
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The chancellor did his best to bury the bad news, but the cuts needed to achieve his plan would be huge – and probably impossible
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Editorial: The chancellor poses as steadfast, but he continually rewrites his ‘long-term plan’ and has not come clean about the dreadful consequences of the endless cutting buried in the smallprint
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Duty ranges from £13 per passenger on short-haul flights from UK to £97 for longest flights but move may not satisfy airlines
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Whether you are a small business owner, a driver or a homebuyer, here’s how the chancellor’s plans will affect you
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George Osborne gives his autumn statement to the House of Commons on Wednesday
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Chancellor George Osborne makes announcement of credit, from April 2015, to help companies looking to make programmes in the UK
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George Osborne says economy will grow by 3% this year but is still concerned by the size of the budget deficit
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Chancellor says shakeup will cut tax for 98% of house purchases while raising money from those buying most expensive homes
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Chancellor highlights plans for corporate tax clampdown but has little cash for giveaways with deficit higher than predicted
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Huge US technology companies such as Google, Amazon and Apple all sell millions of pounds worth of products and services in the UK but pay very little tax
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Chancellor George Osborne will present his latest spending and saving plans alongside new forecasts for the economy on Wednesday. Here are six key graphs to see before he delivers his autumn statement
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Chancellor highlights plans to clamp down on tax loopholes used by tech firms and will vow to rein in debt faster than Labour
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Editorial: It’s bad policy and bad politics to keep a stranglehold on town halls
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Mark Garnier, Conservative MP for Wyre Forest, caught on tape making comments at the Institute of Economic Affairs thinktank
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National Audit Office warns that students at unmonitored alternative providers could have accessed over £50m in funding
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Treasury plans to spend from £2.3bn budget on improving protection for 300,000 homes over six years
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Questions over whether Labour’s plans would have suffered from eurozone crisis and oil prices in same way – but Alastair Darling also expected private investment return
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With the public sector contributing two thirds of the region’s GDP, spending cuts to fund a 12.5% tax rate could be disastrous
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• Chancellor waters down tech company measures
• Disbelief will greet key plan in autumn statement
Topics
- Autumn statement 2014
- George Osborne
- Economics
- Budget
- Tax
- Economic policy
- Stamp duty
- Public finance
- Conservatives
- Budget deficit
- Property
- Liberal-Conservative coalition
- Economic growth (GDP)
- Ed Balls
- Public sector cuts
- Office for Budget Responsibility
- Government borrowing
- Public services policy
- Labour
- Liberal Democrats
Cartoon Martin Rowson on government spending cuts – cartoon
Chancellor George Osborne has credibility – but the spectre of 1930s-style cuts may be too much for voters to accept