The UK Budget 2010

worldtraveller

With the Budget tomorrow what do people expect?

What would you like to see?

Any changes in personal taxation?

Do you expect VAT to remain at 17.5%

More Green Taxes? Tobin Taxes?

Personally I hope that Darling will maintain the small companies' Corporation Tax rate at 21% and not indicate any future increase yet to the 22% that was originally planned.

Really2

Expect
3p duty on petrol frozen.

A gift we should all be so grateful for. (presumably they want us to be grateful enough to vote for them:))

Lots of freezing of spending and beer and fags going up.

Don't think it will be to adventurous.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Nothing..............

JayScottGreenspan

I expect to be told that Labour can eliminate the structural deficit, but its all through efficiency savings and the details are a secret.

purch

I expect a Budget that will do next to nothing to face up to the massive fiscal disaster that is looming.

lvader

It will probably be the biggest non event ever. I don't expect anything of note.

Wheezy_2

Probably as usual...10p on a pack of cigs and 5p on a pint, blablabla...
This close to an election, I can't see any commitment to drastic cutting, nor huge tax increases. And he already implied there won't be any giveaways this time.

kabayiri

You'd be better off running a book on frequency of use of the following terms/phrases :-
global
hard working families
green economy
budget for jobs

Yep, a complete bore. If he chucked in a bit of Paul Daniels magic in there it wouldn't be so dull.

Cannon_Fodder

Local petrol station has within the last hour put 2p on petrol (after putting 2p on less than a week ago). Wonder if its countrywide price-gouging, or just local.

Pete111

He can pretty much say what he likes. It is a more than resonable bet to say the real budget (ie in July/Aug) won't be delivered by him or anyone else from his disaster of a party...

As such I suggest he outlines a massive and sweeping tax on pot plants, subsidies to help the tallest 3% of society and a pledge to provide free balloons for the under 5's.

kennyboy66_2

kabayiri wrote: »

You'd be better off running a book on frequency of use of the following terms/phrases :-
global
hard working families
green economy
budget for jobs

Yep, a complete bore. If he chucked in a bit of Paul Daniels magic in there it wouldn't be so dull.

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