What it is

Chancellor George Osborne has published his Emergency Budget, setting out plans for reducing the UK’s budget deficit.

When it came out

22 June 2010

Why it is important

This spells out the new coalition’s agenda for cutting costs and raising taxes in detail for the first time. It features important moves for property, including the retention of capital spending levels on infrastructure and the relaxation of planning laws in growth areas.

To read the full document, click here: Emergency Budget 2010

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