Chancellor’s mini-budget - Reaction
- Title
- Chancellor’s mini-budget - Reaction
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
- TX Date
- 8 Dec 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:04:46
- Description
- Malcolm Brown reports on the Chancellor’s mini-budget. Kenneth Clarke’s decision to use duty on drinks, cigarettes, and petrol to balance the books has not gone down well with the industries involved and there are still loud complaints about the surviving eight percent level of VAT on fuel and its effect on pensioners. Includes interviews with Tim Hampson, Brewer’s Association; Nicky Nakarja, Tobacco Alliance; Ben Furner, Age Concern; Chris Pond, Low Pay Unit; vox pop with members of the London public.
- Contributors
- Chris Pond; Malcolm Brown; Tim Hampson; Nicky Nakarjae; Ben Furner
- Keywords
- Budgets; Taxation; UK; Great Britain; Charities; Care for the elderly; Value Added Tax; Petroleum industry; Tobacco industry; Beverage industry
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