Wednesday 31 March 2010

No 99: Last week's budget

I'VE just realised that some (!!!!!) of you weren't here for all of my wonderful classes last week, so below are the main points from last Wednesday's Budget.

(For those of you don't know, the Budget - always at the beginning of a new finanicial year - is when the government announces it's tax plans for the next year and discusses the performance of the economy).

I didn't deliberately put the "sin tax" information bigger than the rest................ !

Full details are available here from the Guardian.

Please ask below about anything for which you would like some more explanation.

2 comments:

  1. can you explain please:
    - Tax information agreements with Dominica, Grenade, Belize

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  2. These are countries with extremely low tax rates so the idea is that the UK government can check if anybody is illegally diverting their money to these countries instead of paying what should here.
    Also, criminals often use these countries for "money laundering".

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