When I heard the Fiscal-Event-Mini-Budget announcements (which were, I thought, just that, and no longer just ‘goals’), I worked out that both I and our business would be quite a bit better off. So I took Liz and Kwasi at face value and decided to employ someone, to go for ‘growth, growth, growth’. Yes, I know many businesses and doing-OK-for-themselves individuals planned to trouser the difference, thank you very much; but there must be more than a few others who believed what they heard and did what they thought was the right thing. Several U-turns and a Chancellor later, it seems I’ll actually be worse off. I’m not changing my plans, but I bet some of those others will. So that, in a nutshell, is why ‘businesses and markets are crying out for certainty’. At least for more than a fortnight.
“Jeremy Hunt waves through biggest tax burden since war in spring budget 2023”
It may have seemed a Bland Budget, but that’s because Hunt got all the nasties out of the way in the Autumn Statement, in the hope, I guess, that we’ll have forgotten all about them by the time they hit us.
