Hey there! budget is using Twitter.
Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Join today to start receiving budget's updates.
|
Lib Dem Leader Sir Menzies Campbell says Chancellor has ignored a chance to shape a fairer Britain |
David Cameron said Mr Brown has taken one tax down but put 99 up, accusing him of wasting money on an “industrial scale.” |
Tory Leader David Cameron claimed the average family is now paying £1,300 more in tax. |
The budget debate continues with a speech from the conservative leader, David Cameron |
Tax-free allowance for pensioners under 75 is to rise in three stages to £8,990 in 2008, £9,500 in 2010 and £9,770 in 2011. |
For the coming year, fuel duty will rise 2p per litre, for 2008 2p and for 2009 1.8p |
For the coming year, fuel duty will rise 2p per litre, for 2008 2p and for 2009 1.8p, but this year’s annual fuel duty increase is deferred ... |
Tax-free allowance for pensioners under 75 is to rise in three stages to £8,990 in 2008, £9,500 in 2010 and £9,770 in 2011. For over-75s, ta... |
VAT on nicotine patches reduced to 5% |
10p tax band abolished |
Basic rate tax reduced to 20p from April 2008, from 22p |
Top rate income tax threshold to rise to £43,000 by April 2009 |
Cash ISA savings limit raised to £3,600 by 2008 |
Inheritance tax threshold to rise to £350,000 by 2010 |
£6bn to help workers who have lost their occupational pension scheme |
Beer to rise by 1p a pint, wine 5p per litre, sparkling wine 7p per litre, cigarettes up 11p per packet |
Mainstream corporation tax to be cut from April 2008 to 28p - down from 30p |
Intelligence and counter-terrorism to receive additional £86 million in the coming year |
Chancellor announces sale of government assets totalling £36bn |
Growth in 2008 will be between 2.5 per cent and 3 per cent |