Spring Budget Live: Alcohol duty, fuel duty frozen for longer

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : This will likely see the introduction of a vape duty, increased tobacco duty, reductions in tax breaks for second homeowners who let out the property for holidays, an extension of the energy windfall tax, and tweaks to tax rules on those with non-domiciled status.
45% : Given such cuts are expected to cost the Treasury a combined £22 billion annually, reductions in public spending are said to be more than likely to take place.

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