时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英伦广角


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He forecasts the economy will shrink by 3.5% this year, and to put it into context that is a big downward revision from his prediction in November of a shrinkage of 1.25%. But he did say the economy will start to recover by the end of this year. And he predicts that next year it’s gonna grow again by 1.25 % and in 2011 he forecasts the economy will grow by 3.5%.


Now as far as government borrowing is concerned, he expects this financial year that it will hit 175 billion pounds, that’s up from 118 that was his prediction in November. It will fall back to 173 billion in 2010, 2011 and down to 140 billion in the year after that, 2011 to 2012. So it hasn't got a great deal of money to spend, however it has been billed as a budget for jobs and the Chancellor 1 is giving an extra 1.7 billion pounds for the Job Center Plus Network as well as additional help for people who’ve been out of work for more than 12 months. He also announced a guarantee of job or training places for under 25s who’ve been out of work for more than a year.


Now he also announces there is gonna be help for green industries, and housing, including an extension of the Stamp Duty Holiday for properties under 175,000 pounds that will now go on until the end of this year. There will as anticipated be that Car Scrappage Scheme where cars older than 10 years will be worth up to 2000 pounds towards a new model. The government will give you 2000 pounds if you choose to scrap 2 your old car and decide to buy a new one.


And there is also help for savers. Now the annual limit for tax-free ISA (Individual Savings 3 Account) is gonna up from 7,200 pounds to 10,200 pounds. Now, the, new, new limit will be introduced this year for the over 50s, and next year, it’s gonna apply to everybody else.


But how the Chancellor is gonna claw some of that money back? Well he said there’s gonna be no changes on income tax this year, but from April 2011, pension tax relief for those with high incomes, incomes over 150,000 are going to be restricted. Now there is also gonna be a new tax rate of 50% for those of people who’re earning more than 150,000 pounds. That’s gonna be introduced next April. Now that’s a rise from the new 45% rate that he announced in November and it’s coming in a year early.


The old tax favorites also took a hit. Fuel duty is gonna increase by two pence a litre from September. And the sin taxes haven’t escaped either. Alcohol duty is gonna go up by 2% from midnight tonight.

 



n.(英)大臣;法官;(德、奥)总理;大学校长
  • They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
  • He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。
n.碎片;废料;v.废弃,报废
  • A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
  • Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
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2-Naphthalenol
ABCOP
acetate cellulose adhesive
antiferromagnetic non-gyro tropic crystal
antiwind shield
back-up light
beichley
belfiores
blended asphalt
blind lawyers
blue-baller
bunk up
child-bearing group
contingecy expropriation
coverspun yarn
Ctrl-Break
deep analytics
depressant prescription
Deruta
Dibaya
dielectric strain
domeless
Dukes County
early token release
edible mushroom
emery roll
fibro-lamellar tissue
field gas
fisheries oceanography
floro
gram-mass
Hercule
hinged bearing
Hyperm
Hypermalloy
hypothalamo-adenohypophyseal system
imperceptible
intramolluscan phase
iodous
jail-bait
joint services
Kings Park
lamp check potentiometer
latin-rite
lenetic
Liebreich
liriodendron
Llandwrog
lock/unlock facility
low pressure casting machine
MADDS
man-pussy
mechanism of a reaction
momocular
multiple-disc
nail-tailed wallabies
naked mole rat
nephrosclerosis
newton alloy
nonexecution
novels
number of heads
observant
odentoglossum pulchellum
Office assistant
open-air weathering test
Palmar Sur
Parknasilla
pars sacralis (s. parasympathici)
pearliness
personalisms
pferidekraft
pick us up
popishes
probability disclosure
reaction torque arm
reform of school administrative system
reverse casehardening
sabulography
serofibrinous pericarditis
shockless jarring machine
solomon guggenheims
stall mode
stroitels
supplier quality
synchronizing network
take a share
termary semiconductor alloy
theocine
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time-distribution analyzer
Torres Islands
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trial period
two-level network architecture
underdetermines
unproductive credit
Verse's disease
wirebar copper
yamagutilite