So we have the pre budget report today when we theoretically find out the true scale of the national debt and what the government propose to do about it. However, as always seems to be the practice these days, it’s not just a question of looking into a crystal ball but also doing a bit of brain trainer to recall exactly what was mentioned previously that will also be brought in now – following this so far?

In yester year we used to just have a Budget and that was relatively straight forward but now we have the PBR which allows whoever is in power to map out their budgetary vision for the next x number of years. However, this time round this has been blown out of the water somewhat by the fact that we are due an election in June 2010 and David Cameron has come out and said he will have another Budget within 50 days of being in office – still following?

So pin back your ears today as there may be more to this one than meets the eye. For all you practitioners out there we know the devil is in the detail, pages and pages of it in fact to wade through in order to get past the smoke and mirrors but the bottom line is a really interesting point – pre election budget v. the prudent protector of our economy (where we are all in this together and we all have to make sacrifices – yeah right, anyone forgoing their £m plus bonus – hardly think so,  let’s completely muller SME’s, working/middle class etc as usual) and this employment tax expert for one gets well hacked off with the smoke screen of “green” issues – saving the planet or an excuse for increased taxes – mmmm that’s a difficult one

Carry on watching for updates ….