The Caithness Business Index has posted the following article:

The Fiscal Backdrop To Spring Budget 2023

How might recent economic developments affect the outlook for the public finances, and what does this mean for the Chancellor's options at the Budget? Last year's fiscal furore culminated in the November 2022 Autumn Statement. There, Jeremy Hunt confirmed the reversal of the majority of Kwasi Kwarteng's ‘mini-Budget', loosened the government's fiscal rules, and pencilled in a raft of tax rises and spending cuts for after the next general election. [Read Full Article]