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PBR Comment

07 December 2006
Categories: Comment & Analysis , HMRC powers , IR35
A panel of contributors give their first reaction to the Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report.

Was that it?

WHISTLEBLOWER IS OUR normal recipient of articles left under the photocopier lid unused first drafts etc. but he has passed the following on to me saying it was 'too hot to handle'. I can't make head or tail of it but I thought our readers might.
'I have great pleasure in presenting my tenth and last — did you get that Tony last — Pre-Budget Report. I know you were expecting something spectacular but quite honestly I just can't be bothered. If you haven't realised by now that I like to keep all the good news to announce on Budget day then my cynical comment in the piece about ISAs (which you will find waiting for you in the Record Office when I sit down) that the limit will be “at least £7 000” should finally have made...

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