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JUNE 2015 PRO INSTALLER
PRO BUSINESS
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General
Election Impact
on construction
industry
Chancellor to
disclose second
Budget 2015 in July
Chancellor, George Osborne will
unveil his second Budget of the
year following the Conservatives’
majority victory in the General
Election on Wednesday 8th July.
According to Osborne,
the Tories’ financial
manifesto will focus on
“working people”. The
Chancellor stated he
“didn’t want to wait” to
turn his party’s election promises into a
reality.
In Mr Osborne’s first
all-Conservative Budget, he
is seeking to balance the
party’s manifesto pledges
with the national deficit and
incoming welfare cuts.
As pledged on the doorsteps of Downing Street,
the Chancellor will continue
“the balanced plan to deal
with our debts”.
A new survey also suggests the business community is largely behind his
plans to raise more than
£5bn from targeting tax
evasion and “aggressive”
avoidance.
Almost nine-in-ten Institute of Directors’ (IoD)
members say they support
the government (