Wednesday briefing: What's in Hunt's spring budget - and how will he pay for it?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : And overall, freezes to tax thresholds plus council tax rises in many areas mean that many will still be worse off.
55% : One widely reported suggestion is that he will steal Labour's idea of scrapping the non-dom tax system, which lets foreign nationals living in the UK avoid paying tax on their overseas income or capital gains.
49% : "Hunt's tax cut gamble will put £900 in workers' pockets" - that's the Daily Express while the Times phrases that as "Hunt looks to win over voters with £900 tax cut".
48% : Other revenue-raising moves on the cards include a £500m tax on vapes, a one-year extension of the windfall tax on energy firms' profits that the OBR estimates is worth £1.9bn a year, and the removal of tax relief on properties being rented to holidaymakers, worth a relatively paltry £300m. What other tricks might he use?
44% : So expect to hear the Conservatives talk a lot about what they're doing to ease the pressure on working people - and rather less about the cuts to public spending that they're promising to pay for it, and which Labour are likely to end up carrying the can for.
43% : Hunt's other trick is a much more controversial one: promising to cut government spending in the next parliament, so that he can theoretically obey his rule of ensuring that public sector debt is on course to fall as a share of national income in five years' time.
34% : In February, two YouGov polls found that most people would rather the government prioritised public spending over tax cuts: even when the question about cuts is narrowed to taxes "that everyday people pay", public sector investment still comes out on top.

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