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UK public borrowing rose to a record high in August, at £15.9bn, dwarfing the £12.51bn economists had predicted.
Already George Osborne's first Budget is being marked out as one of the more controversial and dramatic of modern times.
We always dust this one off on Budget day, but can you remember which Chancellor took almost five hours to deliver his speech?
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Maryrose Fison digs into the detail to see how the recent Budget affected pensions
Julie Hutchison takes a look at how the recent Budget has affected estate planning
You’d think, wouldn’t you, in a week of both the Budget and RDR, it’d be fairly easy to pick the most-read story on IFAonline? So get ready for a surprise…
Alistair Darling admitted last night that Labour’s planned cuts in public spending will be "deeper and tougher" than Margaret Thatcher's in the 1980s, as the country's leading experts on tax and spending warned that Britain faces "two parliaments of pain" to repair the black hole in the state's finances.
AIFA has welcomed moves to make AIM shares eligible as a tax-advantaged ISA investment, but says the Chancellor held back on support for small businesses.
Insurers will face a Government review into strenghtening their adminstration processes to ensure policyholders get fair treatment should a provider go into administration.
What happens if you mix red with blue - you get purple - and that just happened to be the colour worn by most of the Labour front budget during the budget.
We like Alistair Darling but, then, we like Gordon Brown too. But who was the better Chancellor? There's only one way to find out...FIGHT!
There was good news for first-time buyers and the ISA allowance represents OK news for savers...but there wasn't much else. Advisers give their verdicts.
Today’s Budget may have seemed like a long, drawn-out, predictable litany of banker-bashing and pre-election tax breaks, but hidden deep among the tedium was at least one bold announcement – that financial capability is to be taught as part of maths GCSE.
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