Rishi Sunak: Ready to help stoke a post-lockdown boom
The Government is expected to follow up its successful vaccine programme with a feel-good giveaway Budget to stimulate an economic recovery from the pandemic.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is apparently prepared to help stoke a post-lockdown boom, and put off tax rises to pay the mammoth Covid-19 bill - at least for a while.
But we might find an open-handed Budget is followed by a more sober Tax Day , a newly-introduced date in the financial calendar scheduled for 23 March, when consultations on future tax raids could be revealed.
These might be trailed for implementation in a (hopefully) post-pandemic April 2022, giving the country plenty of time to think and argue over how the Treasury plans to replenish its coffers.
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