Take a look at our guide and see how your finances may have been affected by Budget 2010.<\/p>\n
Economy <\/strong> Jobs and education <\/strong> Housing <\/strong> Environment <\/strong> Taxes <\/strong> Public finances <\/strong> Were you a winner or a loser? Take a look at our guide and see how your finances may have been affected by Budget 2010. Budget 2010 highlights Economy – Net government borrowing estimate this year will fall from the \u00a3178 billion target by \u00a311 billion this year, to \u00a3167 billion or 11.8 per cent… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Net government borrowing estimate this year will fall from the \u00a3178 billion target by
\n\u00a311 billion this year, to \u00a3167 billion or 11.8 per cent of GDP.
\n– Borrowing will fall to \u00a3163 billion next year, which is equal to 11.1 per cent of GDP. It will then fall to \u00a3131 billion in 2011\/12, or 8.5 per cent of GDP. Borrowing will then decline to \u00a3110 billion, or 6.8 per cent of GDP, to \u00a389 billion in 2013\/14, equal to 5.2 per cent of GDP and to \u00a374 billion in 2014\/15 at 4 per cent of GDP.
\n– Growth forecast for 2011 revised down to between 3 per cent and 3.5 per cent. Predicted growth of 1.0 – 1.5 per cent in 2010 in line with forecasts.
\n– Net debt as a share of GDP will reach 54 per cent this year. It will then increase to 75 per cent by the end of the forecast period in 2014\/15 and will then begin to fall.<\/p>\n
\n– The number of civil servants in London is to be reduced by one third over the long term, with 15,000 posts relocated within the next five years to help to save \u00a311 billion. One thousand civil servants in the Ministry of Justice will be moved out of London, saving \u00a341 million.
\n– Consultation on reform of employers\u2019 right to make people retire at 65, which examines options including scrapping the default retirement age, raising it or giving employees stronger rights.
\n– Guarantee to provide a job or training to 18 to 24-year-olds out of work for more than six months will run until March 2012, instead of ending in March 2011.
\n– Government to set up a \u00a335 million University Enterprise Capital Fund to support \u201cinnovation and spin-out companies\u201d.
\n– To make available \u00a3270 million in 2010\/11 to fund an extra 20,000 university places in areas such as science, technology, engineering and maths as part of a University Modernisation Fund.
\n– The \u00a32.5 billion cost of training young people and extra university places will be partly funded from the tax on bankers\u2019 bonuses.<\/p>\n
\n– A new stamp duty holiday introduced for properties of up to \u00a3250,000, from 25 April 2010, to be funded through an increase in stamp duty from 4 per cent to 5 per cent on properties worth \u00a31 million or more from April next year.
\n– From October 2011, the most expensive properties across the country will be excluded from the Housing Benefit calculation in each area to save \u00a3250 million a year.
\nFamily finances and pensions
\n– One million people will be provided with bank accounts over the next five years.
\n– Higher winter fuel payment will be guaranteed for another year, to be paid by closing tax loopholes.
\n– Inheritance tax threshold will be frozen for four years.
\n– Extension of the tax credit system for people aged over 60. People will have to work less minimum hours to qualify for tax credits.
\n– Parents of one and two-year-olds to receive \u00a34-a-week increase in child tax credit from 2012.<\/p>\n
\n– Government to set up a new green investment bank, which will control \u00a32 billion of equity, to fund a low-carbon economy. Half the cost will come from asset sales, including the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, with the rest matched by private investment.
\n– To provide an extra \u00a360 million to fund offshore wind farms.<\/p>\n
\n– 2.5p rise in fuel duty to be staggered. Will increase by 1p in April, 1p in October with the remainder in January, at which point the government expects inflation to be in line with the Bank of England\u2019s target of 2 per cent.
\n– Confirmation that the 50 per cent rate of income tax will commence in April for people earning more than \u00a3150,000.
\n– To continue the drive to prevent tax evasion and avoidance. Will sign tax information agreements with Dominica, Grenada and Belize.
\n– Duty on cider will rise 10 per cent above inflation.
\n– Duty on alcohol and tobacco will rise by 1 per cent above inflation, then 2 per cent above inflation for two years from 2013.
\n-Tobacco duty will increase by 1 per cent above inflation and by 2 per cent each year until 2014.
\n-Confirmed 0.5 per cent increase in National Insurance for people earning more than \u00a320,000, which will come into effect from April next year.<\/p>\n
\n– Public sector pay rises will be held at 1 per cent for two years from 2011.
\n– Budget plans will raise an extra \u00a319 billion to reduce borrowing.
\n– The government will provide \u00a3100 million to repair roads and a further \u00a3285 million to fix motorways.
\n– The government will go ahead with plans to sell the Tote as part of plans to pull in \u00a316 billion from asset sales.
\n– Government finalising options on the sale of the Dartford Crossing.
\n– An extra \u00a34 billion will be used to fund operations in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"