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The Chancellor today gave a helping hand to motorists and first-time buyers but hit others with tax rises.
23 March 2011
Chancellor George Osborne confirmed the Government will move towards a simplified state pension of £140 a week.
23 March 2011
Chancellor George Osborne said he will cut fuel duty by 1p per litre today and will delay the planned rise next month of over 4p per litre.
23 March 2011
Chancellor George Osborne said today that he will cut income tax in a year by increasing the personal allowance but he will implement an effective tax hike from then on.
23 March 2011
A mammoth 86% of motorists have called on the Chancellor to bring the price of petrol down to £1 per litre or less, in a huge poll of over 14,000 people.
17 March 2011
The elderly will no longer be forced to use their pension savings to buy an annuity by the time they are 75, the Government confirmed today.
15 July 2010
Millions of private sector workers with a final salary pension face lower payouts after the Government announced plans to cut the rate at which their income rises each year.
9 July 2010
People on low incomes are increasingly struggling to get by due to soaring inflation, research suggests today.
6 July 2010
Chancellor George Osborne defended the Budget as "tough but fair" today as he accused the previous Labour government of leaving the economy in a "massive mess".
23 June 2010
Council tax rates in England could be frozen for one year for those whose local authorities can keep costs low, the Chancellor revealed in his Emergency Budget today.
22 June 2010
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