2010 Emergency Budget and low earners

We acknowledged that the emergency Budget published on 22 June was only ever going to provide part of the story: the details of where spending cuts will fall will not be made clear until the publication of the Spending Review on 20 October. Nevertheless, by setting out the Government’s proposed consolidation path, along with the split between tax and spending and details of which taxes and benefits will be altered, the Budget provides a strong indication of how low earners are likely to be affected by deficit reduction in the coming years.