Few Signs of a Growth Plan in Tax-Raising UK Budget
AIB Chief Economist's Weekly Market View
 
 

While markets took a sanguine view of the UK budget, the measures represented a further up front boost to public spending, paid for largely by back loading tax-raising measures. With growth forecasts cut by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), and no major policies to boost growth, the risk remains that the Chancellor will be back for more in next year’s Budget, if her ‘fiscal headroom’ begins to slip again. 


 
 
 
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