MBL: The Budget Special
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Whether you're young or old, rich or poor, how will the Budget affect your personal finances?
Paul Lewis and a panel of experts give their opinions on how it will affect your wallet and take your calls.
Our panel this week; Anita Monteith – Institute of Chartered Accountants Heather Self- Blick Rothenberg Accountants Tina Riches – Tax Aid
Call 03700 100 444. Lines are open from 1pm on Wednesday 11 March.
You can also email moneybox@bbc.co.uk or tweet @moneybox
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| 0:00.0 | In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers. |
| 0:08.0 | But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA |
| 0:12.0 | was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife. |
| 0:18.0 | Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? When lies are still being told to this day, |
| 0:24.0 | who do you believe? I wouldn't even know where to start and I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello, welcome to the download of Moneybox Live, the program that is always about your money, and today we |
| 0:37.8 | discuss how the budget on March the 11th could affect your pocket as Risha Sunak made his treasury |
| 0:45.0 | debut. Hello, so an hour or so after the new Chancellor, Rishi Sunak sat down, are you better off, |
| 0:52.7 | or are you worse off? Can you self-isolate without impoverishing yourself? |
| 0:57.7 | With a flat economy and in the emergency cut in interest rates this morning, it was a baptism of fire for his first budget, but did it set the world a light? |
| 1:06.7 | I've listened to concerns from all sides of this house that the pensions tax system is preventing doctors from taking on more hours. |
| 1:14.6 | To significantly reduce the number of people that the tapered annual allowance affects, |
| 1:21.6 | I am increasing both taper thresholds by £90,000 removing anyone with income below £200,000. |
| 1:30.3 | A world-class education will help the next generation thrive, and nothing could be more fundamental |
| 1:38.8 | to that than reading. |
| 1:41.2 | And yet digital publications are subject to VAT. |
| 1:45.0 | That can't be right. |
| 1:48.0 | So today, I am abolishing the reading tax. |
| 1:52.0 | So I'm pleased to announce today that for another year, |
| 1:57.0 | fuel duty will remain frozen. |
| 2:00.0 | Well, three hours. year, fuel duty will remain frozen. |
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