Fiscal update and mini-budget set for Dec 20

Fiscal update and mini-budget set for Dec 20
Finance minister Nicola Willis has put the emphasis on mini for her upcoming mini-budget. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Ian Llewellyn
Treasury’s half-year economic and fiscal update will be released on Dec 20, which the government had indicated will be turned into a mini-budget.The update of the government’s books takes greater than usual significance as finance minister Nicola Willis has indicated there will be some form of mini-budget as the coalition government puts into place its fiscal and policy plans.Willis has said early briefings suggested the outgoing Labour government had left "some nasty surprises" in the form of "pretty significant"...

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