BUDGET-2020

People like to put Budgets into nice, neat categories. Is it a spending or tax raising budget? Sometimes the answer is not entirely clear. But 11 March was not such a time. Based on the Red Book numbers, Budget 2020 was a spending budget to define...

This year’s Budget was delivered in the shadow of the mounting coronavirus crisis, with much of the chancellor’s speech devoted to the government’s £30bn fiscal package aimed at boosting the economy in light of COVID-19. In a...

This week’s Budget was hotly anticipated, with many commentators expecting the government to refocus its attention on the ‘domestic tax and spend agenda’, having put Brexit to bed. The coronavirus outbreak has put a bit of a spanner...

After waiting nearly 18 months for a Budget, the newly appointed chancellor’s first outing proved to be one of the quietest for years in terms of tax changes for private clients. It was dominated by the imminent threat of COVID-19 coronavirus...

The first Budget of a new government is typically seen as an opportunity for it to set out a vision for both the country and the economy over its term of office. In the wake of Boris Johnson’s emphatic general election victory in December 2019...

Is it to Grimsby or Guildford? At some point, the real chancellor will have to decide, writes political commentator Philip Stephens.

The Budget focuses on emergency measures on Covid-19 and long-term investment, writes John Hawksworth (PwC).

With the former chancellor on record as saying he wanted to unveil a tax-cutting Budget, the outlook for Rishi Sunak’s first Budget is even more uncertain, as David Smith explains.