By Joe Ventre, digital campaign manager
This year’s budget was anything but typical. With measures to tackle the coronavirus outbreak understandably dominating the media’s attention and the wider economic picture in flux, many of the less immediate elements seem to have slipped through the net.
Below we have outlined five such features you may have missed.
Among these was an increase in the national insurance threshold, a positive step towards the TaxPayers’ Alliance position of equalising the national insurance and income tax thresholds.
1. National insurance
2. Fuel duty
3. Plastic packaging tax
4. Beer, cider, wine and spirit duties
5. Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland budget increases
