Budget 2012 heads-up: What the papers say

BUDGET 2012

With the Chancellor seemingly just as likely to speak to the press as to policymakers in the build-up to a Budget, we round some of this week's likely measures...

Stamp duty George Osborne confirmed this weekend he will be "coming after" stamp duty avoidance with aggressive new measures in Wednesday's Budget. He said buying homes through a company to avoid the tax was "unacceptable" and pledged to "come down on that practice like a tonne of bricks". "Rich people, often foreigners who come to this country, but also some people here in Britain, who put homes into companies to avoid stamp duty - that is completely unacceptable," Osborne said on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show. Income tax Osborne is expected to use the Budget to announce he i...