Budget 2012 explained: Live webchat with Mark Dampier, Head of Research at Hargreaves Lansdown, Wednesday 21 March 12.30-2pm

[AntoniaMumsnet]

It's Budget day on Wednesday. What will happen to the 50p tax rate? Will we see a mansion tax? What about child benefit?

It could be a red letter day for your family finances. We are delighted to welcome Mark Dampier to Mumsnet for a live budget webchat. Mark is head of research at Hargreaves Lansdown, the independent financial adviser, and an all-round financial guru. He will be translating the Chancellor's statements as he makes them, and finding time to answer your comments.

Mark will be busy keeping an eye on Osborne, so please don't post questions about your own family finances here (we've got plans for a special Q&A about this later, see below). Do join us here at 12.30, when the fun begins.

Coming up: We've set up a Q&A with a panel of experts to take questions on your family finances after the Chancellor sits down.

Next week, Mumsnet favourite Alvin Hall will be in on Thursday 29 March for a live webchat on savings and investments.

It's all about the Money at Mumsnet HQ.....

• A white paper on the growing cost of social care for the elderly
• A rolling review of state pension age
• An extra £100 million for armed forces housing, and doubling of council tax relief for families of serving armed forced personnel

@noddyholder

Thatcher light imo bloody right to buy is and was a disgrace.Encouraging people to get 95% mortgages for new builds which are notoriously risky is irresponsible.

quite agree, housing poor idea at moment for 1st timers

Think we all know it's the properties their builder mates can't shift

low mortgage rates? but still going up!

renewable energy stuff, but lights still likely to go out unless we have real power stations

Thank god I'm so worried about Wallace and gromit it keeps me up at night

at least helping North Sea producers after taxing them so much last time.

Wallace and Gromit? Is that a reference to the cartoon depiction of Ed Miliband?

@Swed

From the budget: 2012 inflation forecast is 2.8% and down to 1.9% for next year and then 2% thereafter

As a saver, how do I protect my savings aganist inflation when interest rates are so low? I'm already fully invested in a (Hargreaves Landsdown )equities ISA, but what else can I do if I may need access to my savings in next 5 years, say?

Hi Swed,
We'll be setting up a Q&A for questions about individual finances as soon as the Chancellor sits down...
Do post this question on that!

So making tge Olympic visitors happy in keeping touch with home?

WTAF? Are they really joking about Wallace & Grommit? While I'm sat here worrying about feeding my kids?

I feel a bit sick.

Antonia - Sorry. That was a bit me me me.

• A fund for faster broadband across the UK
• A tax credit scheme for video games and high end television companies
• Reduction in red tape for businesses seeking planning permission
• Confirmation of relaxation of Sunday trading over Olympic period

ooh let's get kids into debt as soon as possible. Won't affect their kids though will it?

much talk about local pay

Should I renew my car tax online now before he talks about it?

I'm waiting to see how it will affect a single parent working part time as I am being interviewed by The Telegraph after the budget :(

The tax statement is just another divisive strategy to get people frothing about 'scroungers' Bollocks!

@BoffinMum

I agree, Mark. Why on earth just move the deck chairs on the Titanic?

its all politics!!

@LovesBeingWearingSkinnyJeans

Should I renew my car tax online now before he talks about it?

changes dont normally start that soon

The ref to Wallace and Grommit was a joke about Ed Miliband's resemblance. Keeping them right where they are as in, in oppositioin. It was a good joke.

Tories are much better than Labour at making jokes.

• Confirmation of new single tier pension for future pesnioners set at £140
• Basic state pension to rise by £5.30 from April
• 20 million tazpayers to get a simple tax statement

Corporation tax to fall by another 1% straight away to 24%

Swed - Torries are much better at writting jokes too - they wrote this Budget!!

• Corporation tax cut by 1% immediately and down to 22% by 2014