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This is Money Podcast

Was the Budget too little, too late - and what will it mean for your money?

This is Money Podcast

This is Money

Business News, Business, Investing, News

4.1650 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Hunt bounced around delivering his Budget on Wednesday, proudly declaring his commitment to tax cuts and supporting working families.

Another 2p was chopped off National Insurance and the threshold at which child benefit is removed was raised from £50,000 to £60,000.

But you don’t need to be a financial expert to know that the Chancellor’s version of events isn’t quite the whole story.

Because Mr Hunt is also presiding over a long-term stealth tax freeze to thresholds that is costing workers dear and his child benefit move merely kicked sky-high marginal tax rates down the road, rather than getting rid of them altogether.

Nonetheless, a tax cut and an extra £5,000 Isa allowance – even if it’s a slightly iffy, limited one – is not to be sniffed at.

So, was this an escape velocity Budget that puts Britain back on the path to growth?

Or was it too little, too late, from a Tory party that has sported successive Chancellors who have been keener to raise our taxes by hook or by crook rather than cut them – or even just keep thresholds in line with inflation.

On this week’s Budget special This is Money podcast, Georgie Frost, Lee Boyce and Simon Lambert look at the winners and losers and go searching for the devils in the detail.

What is the NI cut worth to you? Will you get some child benefit back? Did pensioners deserve a tax cut too? With a failure to reverse his capital gains and dividend tax raid, what has the Chancellor got against small investors?

And will the British Isa be any good?

All that and more – plus a look at why Nationwide is buying Virgin Money and whether that’s good or bad for us all.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to This Is Money podcast sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct.

0:06.4

I'm Georgie Frost and joining me and Simon Lambert today is Lee Boyce.

0:10.2

And coming up, unfortunately the Chancellor failed to listen to Simon's pleas and rant.

0:15.2

Perhaps he missed our recent podcast.

0:17.6

But what was announced in the spring budget?

0:20.4

Well, there weren't many rabbits,

0:21.9

that's for sure. We knew quite a lot of it beforehand. We had another cut to national

0:26.4

insurance, a change to child benefit, a British Icer and a freeze to alcohol and fuel

0:31.7

duty. There was bad news for vapours, first-time buyers and pensioners, and Simon and I. So were you a winner

0:39.5

or a loser of the budget? Don't forget you can set up to date with all the latest breaking

0:43.5

money news, just go to this ismoney.co.uk or download the app.

0:47.8

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1:01.0

With our comprehensive range of investments, trade in shares, funds, investment trusts and ETFs, there's a range to suit all levels of investor.

1:11.6

Choose your own or consider our ready-made solutions.

1:14.6

Charles Stanley Direct.

1:16.6

Sign up now.

1:17.6

Investment involves risk.

1:18.6

But first, on Wednesday, the Chancellor delivered what is likely to be his last financial statement before the election.

1:25.6

But who knows?

1:26.6

Was it chock full of tasty tax

1:28.6

giveaways to woo the voters? Yeah, not so much. We already knew he was going to announce

1:34.5

another cut to national insurance, freeze fuel duty, and probably make some changes to ISIS

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