Guide to the Budget 2016

Tax and savings were central to Mr Osborne’s 62-minute speech, including the unveiling of a retirement savings vehicle for millennials called the Lifetime Individual Savings Account (LISA). Ultimately, this is a testing ground for the Pensions ISA proposed before Budget 2016, and it gives the Government the option to see how consumers react to the ISA option. Mr Osborne added that people under 40, many of whom haven’t had a good deal from the pensions system, would gain government bonuses for saving into their LISAs, receiving £1 from the Government for every £4 saved, at a maximum of £4,000 a year.