Will the Budget be good for you? - This is Money Show

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🗓️ 18 March 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Tax cuts and the Lifetime Isa were the giveways in George Osborne's Budget, but will they help you?

Simon Lambert and Lee Boyce, of This is Money, join Georgie Frost, of Share Radio, to take the Chancellor's plans apart in this week’s This is Money Show and try to work out whether it was a good, bad or indifferent Budget.

The outlook for the economy, the Budget winners and losers and the thorny question of whether a Lifetime Isa beats a pension are all up for debate. (Along with a look at some of the Chancellor's ulterior motives).

Whether you are a saver, spender, young professional, pensioner, or buy-to-let landlord, the team explain what the Budget means for you. (A warning for buy-to-letters, it’s not that pretty).

Also on today's show, we look at how to get more if you trade in at a car dealership, how social media-driven entrepreneurs are carving out new careers and businesses from their passions, and why Britain has been dubbed a nation of coffee-swigging, legging wearing, microwave rice-eaters, who don't like to dance.

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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane

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0:00.0	This is Money, brought to you in partnership with NS and I, giving you 100% security for your savings.
0:19.3	A very warm welcome to This Is Money and Share Radio podcast in partnership with NS&I.
0:24.2	I'm Georgie Pross here with you on DAB across the country, online and through the Share Radio mobile app every weekday from 9 until midday, sharing ideas about money.
0:33.7	I'm joined in the studio today by editor Simon Lamb and Consumer Affairs Editor Lee Boyce
0:38.5	to talk through some of the stories that they've been looking at over the last seven days.
0:43.1	And on the agenda today.
0:46.0	Financial markets are turbulent.
0:52.4	Productivity growth across the West is too low.
0:55.6	And the outlook for the global economy is weak.
0:58.4	It makes for a dangerous cocktail of risks.
1:03.7	The Chancellor delivered his eighth budget this week,
1:07.0	with the sugar tax grabbing all the headlines,
1:09.0	but with economists continuing to examine just how sound the Chancellor's policies are. Who are the winners? grabbing all the headlines, but with economists continuing to examine
1:10.9	just how sound the Chancellor's policies are. Who are the winners? Who are the losers? What does
1:15.7	it say about the state of our economy? George Orlesborn said the budget was for the next generation.
1:21.0	Opponents claim it has unfairness at its core.
1:23.6	Well, half a million people with disabilities are losing over a billion pounds.
1:29.3	Corporation tax has been cut and billions handed out in tax cuts to the very wealthy.
1:35.3	We drilled down into more detail about a number of policies, booths for workers, small businesses,
1:40.3	drivers and investors, not so for landlords, the drinks industry, the disabled,
1:45.2	personal allowance, capital gains.
1:46.8	And Simon's asks, when is a pensioniser, not a pension icer, when it's a lifetime
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