A guide to the key tax announcements.
The Budget was less about setting grand visions and more about addressing the particular challenges of today.
The chancellor walks a narrow tightrope between fiscal prudence and easing austerity.
A number of positive measures were announced which will be of great interest to MNCs, as well as arguably the most significant change to the taxation of property since the introduction of SDLT in 2003.
A raft of enforcement measures, although not all of them are new.