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1981 Feb 18 - 1981 Jul 10
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/439
Economic policy (Budget) (Part 5)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 227
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81 Feb 19 Thu Budget: Treasury minute to No.10 ("Indirect Tax Package") [twice revalorisation basis - tabulated] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 19 Thu Budget: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Indexed Gilts") [must auction them since appropriate price unknown] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 23 Mon Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Season Tickets" [provided by employers]) [strongly defends proposed tax] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 1 Mon Budget: Lankester briefing for MT (recouping DERV concession) [meeting with Chancellor] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 Wed Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Indexed Gilts") [seeks agreement to announce in budget] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 Wed Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Company Taxation: Stock Relief") [detailed reform proposals] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 20 Fri Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Oil Taxation Proposals") [broad lines of budget changes] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 20 Fri Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [indirect tax package] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 23 Mon Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Sir Jeremy Morse (windfall tax on bank profits) [rejects his counter-proposal] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 23 Mon Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Budget") [outline of budget decisions to date] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 23 Mon Budget: David Howell minute to MT ("Oil Taxation Proposals") [criticises Treasury budget plans] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 25 Wed Budget: Walters minute to Chancellor (lunch at Union Discount) [directors think a "really satisfactory" PSBR consistent with falling rates would be "about £7b"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 27 Fri Budget: Treasury minute to No.10 ("The Budget") [summary of final decisions] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 5 Thu Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Public Expenditure & the Budget") [energy related overruns] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 6 Fri Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind: Free Petrol") [proposal; agreed by MT] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 6 Fri Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor, Governor & Wass) [decision to reduce MLR by 2 per cent on budget day] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 10 Tue Budget: Sir Geoffrey Howe Ministerial Broadcast ("The Budget") ["times are tough"]
81 Mar 11 Wed Budget: Unwin minute to Wass ("The Budget & Deflation") [urgent request from No.10 for material rebutting deflation charge] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 13 Fri Budget: Radio Interview for BBC Jimmy Young Programme (Howe defends the budget) [balancing the books to get down interest rates]
81 Apr 27 Mon Budget: Treasury minute (Chancellor's meeting with ministers) ["Road Fuel Duty & Energy Prices"] [declassified 2011]