The only sensible calculation is between last year and this and not what might be next year because we have no idea what else is going to change that affects the net disposable income of anyone.



According to the BBC budget calculator someone on £20K a year will save £267 in tax and £18 in NI.



It's fairly pointless quoting that though because if you like the odd glass of wine , spirits or drive your net gain is less.



You have to take all circumstances into account.



For example if you have a kid and earn a higher salary and start to lose child benefit if one of the family hits the threshold you are soon worse off than last year. Even more so with two kids. A family with one person earning 52400 and the other at home looking after the 2 kids will be £132 worse off. A family with two working on exactly half that wage each are £562 better off. Idiotic state of affairs.



Of course it all changes when you earn £185K or more thanks to the cut in top rate of tax. Then even losing [iall [/ithe child benefit for your two kids is offset by the gains in lower tax and NI.



"Progressive" taxation? Osborne doesn't know the meaning of the word.

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A real old scattergun of a Budget. No clear policy thread running through it at all.



Giveaways for some (shale gas explorers, middle income families with children, buyers of new build houses, beer drinkers), kicks in the teeth for others (further cuts to public sector budgets, pay rises capped at well below inflation).



Basically, a whole load of tinkering around the edges of the economy while it continues to lurch further away from the Government's own targets on growth and borrowing. Quite how Osborne has the cheek to insist that everything is still on track I don't know.



Mind you, when you've got News International on your side you can convince the public of anything (apparently the Sun front page this morning massively understated the debt position - accidentally or otherwise).

Thanks for that, it's going to be fun watching this develop.



And all for the sake of a pathetically token crumb of 1p off a pint.



As with the pasty tax, it merely shows how out of touch he is.

In a post - my ideas have been exposed for what they are - but rather than accept my ideas are flawed I will resort to deflection - typical Mr Fish