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Budget 2004 header
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Gordon Brown
Brown draws election battle lines
Gordon Brown defends his Budget as the Tories claim it is a return to Labour being a "tax and spend party".
Analysis: Marr's verdict
Q&A: What it means to you
At-a-glance: The Budget

KEY STORIES

Deficit target set to be hit
40,000 Whitehall jobs to be cut
Clarke's Budget news for schools
Chancellor shrugs off Budget gap
Brown moves to cool house prices
Smokers face further price rises
Chancellor to close tax loophole
Customs and Revenue merge
Radical plan to shake up housing
Budget Calculator
Have you gained or lost cash from the Chancellor's Budget?
Budget documents in full Documents in full
Read the chancellor's full budget report and other documents
Chancellor Gordon Brown Gordon Brown
Watch the chancellor's Budget speech


ECONOMIC SITUATION

Where's the waste?
BBC economics editor Evan Davis looks for fat to cut.

Spending battle follows Budget
City questions Budget forecasts
Should Brown wield the axe?
Brown's child poverty challenge
POLITICS OF THE BUDGET

Chancellor Gordon Brown holding his ministerial "red box" Tax takes centre stage
Labour lays the grounds for the next election.

All agree Budget is 'vote winner'
Howard attacks Brown's Budget
'Big decisions are being shelved'
Profile: Gordon Brown

WHAT THE BUDGET MEANS TO YOU

Anne Redston Brown moves the goalposts
A leading accountant gives her verdict on the Budget.

Brown tackles 'hard-core' jobless
Your reaction to the Budget
Brown's tax crackdown
What we already knew
UK Economy plc
How is the UK economy performing?

Budget: Your Views
Your verdict on Brown's budget plans

Cash. Click to open at-a-glance guide to the Budget Budget guide
Check your tax and benefits changes


BUSINESS ISSUES

Firms hail listening chancellor
Big business backs Brown's red tape fight, but smaller firms feel left out.

Film-makers handed tax benefits
Distillers' anger over tax plan
Film-makers welcome relief
Brown outlines science strategy
Minimum wage for under-18s
£1.4m pensions cap to hit 10,000
Brown rejects fresh euro test
BUDGET ROUND-UP

Elizabeth Winkfield Cool response to pensioner cash
Treatment of pensioners under fire despite an extra £100 for the over-70s.

20,000 civil servants to relocate
Bookies hail internet bet review
Boost for medical research
Delays hit lorry charges scheme
Buy-to-let for everyone
More money for education
Budget speech in full

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