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Budget 2000

November 2000

  • Short changed

  • Tax break for risk takers' shares

26 March 2000

  • Hard-working families credited

  • Chancellor encourages greater staff ownership

  • Students still feel the pinch

  • Nurse welcomes extra NHS cash but may still lose out

  • Means-testing by another name for poorer pensioners

  • That second car will have to go

  • Cheers of entrepreneurs are balanced by sole traders' fears

  • Fast work can stamp on house tax rise

23 March 2000

  • Mothers may get part-time working rights

    Working mothers could get the automatic right to return to their jobs part-time after taking maternity leave, under plans being considered by the government.

21 March 2000

  • The major Budget changes to personal finance

    Stamp duty

19 March 2000

  • Budgets: The who, what and why

    All you need to know about the Budget.

  • Inheritance set for a hit

    The chancellor was expected to tackle inheritance tax a year ago but only raised the individual personal threshold to £231,000. He may duck the issue again, but if he follows through on his earlier concerns, he will try to make it harder for the very wealthy to escape the tax.

  • Measure for measure

    So, apart from reform of inheritance tax, what else might Tuesday's Budget package include? We could hear some real news.

18 March 2000

  • How is he going to spend our money?

    The Daily Mirror's Budget headline was "Flash Gordon", while the Daily Express shouted "Everyone a winner", and even the usually hostile Daily Mail hailed the chancellor as "Moneybags". Will the headlines this year greet an "e-conomy" Budget, or slam a steep rise in property taxes?

February 2000

  • A third way budget

    Anthony Giddens

  • Government support urged for occupational pensions

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