Sentence examples for centrepiece budget from inspiring English sources

In a centrepiece budget measure, the chancellor announced the government will hand over £50 for every £200 a would-be buyer saves towards a deposit.

The government sought to prevent Labor from pocketing the savings from not proceeding with the company tax cuts that had formed the centrepiece of its budget by refusing to reveal what they cost over 10 years, saying the $5.3bn cost over the budget forward estimates were the only necessary figures to include.

Another "budget centrepiece" bites the dust.

The centrepiece of the budget was a minimum wage rate for over-25s, to be set at £7.20 from next April and rising to about £9 by 2020.

Above all, the political centrepiece of the budget – the living wage – was an idea whose genesis was a campaign launched a decade ago by Citizens UK – the organisation David Cameron declined to address in the election due to a diary clash.

Osborne plans to make the cut in the 50p rate for those earning over £150,000 the centrepiece of the budget, and is said to have been angered by the proposal leaking out this week.

In particular, the Coalition's full company tax cut plan – the centrepiece of its budget – and many of its long-stalled "zombie" savings have little chance of becoming law after the election, a Guardian Australia survey has revealed.

A £500 tax cut for the "squeezed middle" formed the centrepiece of a budget that promised to reverse the march of millions of workers into the higher rate tax band.

"We won't take any pious lectures from a government which has at the centrepiece of its budget a tax cut which it wouldn't tell Australian people how much it would cost... and is completely unfunded".

Yet the centrepiece of his budget was a sharp slowdown in spending growth in two years' time (see chart).The squeeze on most departmental budgets will be intense, since the National Health Service will continue to get increases of over 7% a year until 2007-08.

Then back in March, Help to Buy fanned the flames as the Chancellor's Budget centrepiece offered government loans of up to 20 per cent on new-build homes of up to £600,000 in value to boost deposits: there have been 18,000 reservations since April.