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The amount of money that can be put in to Junior ISA and a Child Trust Fund has been raised to £4,000 in today's Budget.

The reduction of the withdrawal tax rate from 55% to an individual's marginal income tax rate will increase tax income by £1.2bn a year by 2019, Budget documents show.

Pensioners will be able to buy bonds from the government with ‘market leading rates' to a maximum investment of £10,000, the chancellor has announced.

Hargreaves Lansdown's shares rose on news the government is set to increase the personal ISA allowance to £15,000, whilst life company stocks tumbled, after chancellor George Osborne unveiled the latest Budget.

The 40% income tax threshold will rise this year and next, Chancellor George Osborne has said in the Budget.

Everything you need to know about Osborne's pensions revolution

The tax-free allowance - already set to rise to £10,000 this April - will be further increased to £10,500 from next year, George Osborne has announced in the Budget.

Emergency services workers will no longer be subject to inheritance tax (IHT) if they die in service, it has been announced in the Budget.

People looking to establish tax avoidance schemes will have to pay due taxes to HMRC upfront before applying to get it back through the courts, Chancellor George Osborne has announced.

Unemployment in the UK fell by 63,000 to 2.33 million in the three months to January, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).