While the Budget offered some crowd-pleasing measures, it failed to deliver meaningful change, writes CHRIS BARBER The Finance Secretary’s announcement to increase the amount at which the basic and intermediate income tax thresholds starts by 7.4%, to £16,538 and £29,527 respectively, appears welcome news for low low-income earners. However, at only £11 per year extra in their pockets, this hardly represents any difference to overall livelihoods. These threshold increases also won’t deliver a meaningful […]