Budget key points: What did Jeremy Hunt announce?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The threshold for compulsory VAT reporting will also be increased by £5,000 to £90,000, but tax experts said the change does little to address the "cliff edge" that means small businesses close to the threshold figure to grow.
47% : Hunt said: "When it is responsible, when it is able to be done without increasing borrowing, we will continue to cut National Insurance so we can truly make work pay.
46% : A 2p cut to National Insurance was the headline measure in the Budget, and Hunt saved it for last.
45% : Hunt said the "double taxation" of pay - the combination of income tax and National Insurance - was unfair, and that, in the long-term, the Government would aim to bring it down further.

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