Green Politics
The assumptions underpinning the budget are simply absurd
My candid opinion then is that the assumptions underpinning the budget are simply absurd: there is no way this growth in incomes is gong to happen whatever changes are being made to the income tax system.
Where Osborne’s cuts might fall
Where George Osborne's departmental cuts might fall.
How the coalition has been helping millionaires – a graph
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has today produced a graph in its post-budget analysis showing just how regressive this government's measures are - or in plain English, how favourable the coalition's policies have been to the wealthy.
Budget 2013: IFS says borrowing in 2014 will be 70bn more than hoped in 2010
Budget 2013: IFS says borrowing in 2014 will be 70bn more than hoped in 2010.
The £10,000 personal tax allowance: anything but progressive
In yesterday's budget George Osborne announced that the personal income tax allowance would be raised to £10,000 from next year, earlier than 2015 as originally planned. Superficially taking people out of income tax does sound like a tantalising prospect - poorer people will have more money in their pockets, will they not? There are two major problems with this.
A bleak budget for the nations
George Osborne's 2013 budget has received a tepid response in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.