Pocket Calculations
13 September 2012
Headlines were rapturous, but suspicions are now creeping in. So was the 1999 Budget good news or bad news?
Tax and pleasure are two words rarely found in the same sentence so it is no surprise that most people feel pretty much the same way about the Budget as they do about having teeth pulled. But listening to Chancellor Gordon Brown’s Budget day speech this year, you could have been forgiven for thinking that you had strayed into a wonderland where all news was good news...