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Welcome to BBC News Online's Budget 99 website.

Here, you can find all the Budget news and analysis from BBC experts.

You can also read in-depth features - both serious and light-hearted - on the Budget's history, what it is, and the issues facing the chancellor.

Email us with your views on what Gordon Brown should do. You will also be able to test your economic skills by playing the Be Your Own Chancellor game.

Then you can find out how the Budget has affected you personally and tell the world what you think of the chancellor's measures.

Latest Budget news As it happens
BBC News Online will be bringing you the latest from in and around the house minute by minute throughout the Budget.
Click here to get all the latest stories as they happen.

"If the chancellor wants to encourage the family then he should raise married couples' tax relief, not abolish it."
Dr Jason Abbott, UK

E-mail us your views

"Most of the people I know in my situation are being asked to take jobs which would make them worse off than they are on benefits."
Lone parent Julie Singleton

Real people mount their soapboxes to tell the chancellor what to do.






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