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Budget: ‘Scrooge’ Sunak’s cuts look too harsh to be ‘deliverable’

The “spending plans in particular don’t look deliverable, at least not without considerable pain”.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-03-04 13:55
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The biggest tax-raising Budget for 28 years has made the Chancellor look less like “Santa Sunak” and “more like Scrooge Sunak”, according to an economic think tank.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said Rishi Sunak is largely funding a mammoth £50 billion squeeze by freezing income tax allowances and hiking corporation tax in “screeching U-turns on Conservative policy”.

In a damning assessment of Wednesday’s Budget, the IFS warned that Mr Sunak’s spending plans to help address the UK’s battered public finances “do not look deliverable” and further tax rises may be needed.

It said the corporation tax increase from 19% to 25% by 2023 was a “gamble” and the move will not have a bad effect on much-needed business investment.

The IFS also said Mr Sunak had been “silent” on long-term recovery plans to address the future consequences of the pandemic.

You can now read @PJTheEconomist's opening remarks on the #Budget2021 in full, download all of the slides presented by our team and watch the event again.https://t.co/1oWEb34T8O pic.twitter.com/AGOQ7S6QDk

— Institute for Fiscal Studies (@TheIFS) March 4, 2021

Too harsh

The IFS suggested that Rishi Sunak’s long-term plans involved spending cuts that were so harsh as to be unrealistic.

Paul Johnson, the IFS’s director, said the “spending plans in particular don’t look deliverable, at least not without considerable pain”. The budget involved cuts worth around £4bn a year in spending after next year, he said.

He said: “Are we really going to spend £16bn less on public services than we were planning pre-pandemic? Is the NHS really going to revert to its pre-Covid spending plans after April 2022?

“In reality, there will be pressures from all sorts of directions. The NHS is perhaps the most obvious. Further top-ups seem near-inevitable.

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“Catching up on lost learning in schools, dealing with the backlog in our courts system, supporting public transport providers, and fixing our system for social care funding would all require additional spending. The chancellor’s medium-term spending plans simply look implausibly low.”

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