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[Music] every year the government holds a budget this is an opportunity for the chancellor to set the government's plans for taxes and spending unlike many other government proposals the budget doesn't have a so-called green paper where the government lays out its thinking in advance to provoke discussion this means that apart from leaks to the press intended and otherwise what's in the budget remains a secret until the chancellor stands up and starts talking the budget contains four main items first the government publishes its updated economic and fiscal forecasts telling us what might happen to the economy over the next five years including things like gdp inflation wages and unemployment as well as what's expected for spending tax receipts the deficit and the debt historically this was produced by the treasury and was directly under the control of the chancellor and therefore potentially subject to politically motivated wishful thinking but since 2010 that responsibility has been shifted to the office for budget responsibility second changes to taxation for every 10 pounds of national income the government takes around 4 pounds in tax revenue this revenue is made up of a broad array of taxes from very big ones like income tax and vat to smaller ones like tobacco duty the budget is the main time for making changes to the rates base and structure of taxes or to invent new taxes altogether third changes to spending on public services things like education health and defense the key event which sets spending limits on these things isn't the budget but the spending review which comes around every few years though often a budget and a spending review of publish at the same time even though the spending review sets the big picture direction of spending on public services often chancellors change those plans at budgets adding a bit more to struggling services or taking a bit off to save money if tax receipts have come in less than expected fourth changes to social security outside of public services social security is the major item of government spending making up about a quarter of government spending and including the state pension disability benefits and universal credit at budgets chancellors change the rates for these payments as well as their rules widening or narrowing eligibility sometimes the government also announces new regulations at a budget even if they aren't directly linked to tax or spending recent budgets have included the introduction of the national living wage changes to social housing rents and tighter gambling restorations the choices the government makes at the budget are important they directly affect our incomes the wider economy the amount spent on public services and the government's finances being in the midst of the covert pandemic this budget will be a bit different to those of years past the forecasts are even more uncertain than normal and it probably makes even more sense than usual to think of the tax and spending plans as being written in pencil rather than pem the immediate choices the government faces are around its intentions for the big support programs introduced last year including those aimed at households like the furlough scheme and boosted universal credit and those aimed at companies like loans and business rates relief beyond those very immediate considerations the government will be looking to set out its agenda for the recovery and what it plans to do to support it and the more general transition that the economy needs to make to a post-covert post-brexit world in which we're moving towards net zero carbon emissions