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George Osborne is preparing to deliver his Budget for 2014 on Wednesday, with speculation rife about what he is set to announce.
HuffPostUK decided to wade through the guesswork and bring you the best of what people are expecting the chancellor to announce.
What can we expect from the Budget 2014
A new garden city (01 of10)
Osborne told the Andrew Marr show on Sunday that the government would create the UK's first garden city in nearly 100 years, by the Thames Estuary at Ebbsfleet in Kent. This would see 15,000 homes built there initially.
More help to buy homes (02 of10)
Osborne confirmed that the government's Help to Buy equity loan scheme will be extended to 2020 for people buying new build homes. The extension would cost £6 billion and should encourage the construction of a further 120,000 homes, even if it stokes greater fears of a housing bubble. Osborne may also double the stamp duty threshold from £125,000 to £250,000.
Beer drinkers to stay safe (03 of10)
Beer drinkers won't pay more for their pint but wine lovers will have to cough up more, as well as those who enjoy spirits. According to the Mirror, duty on wine will go up 12p, spirits 48p. Meanwhile, smokers are set to suffer a 28p rise for 20 cigarettes and 26p rise on smokers face a 28p rise on 25gms of roll-up tobacco.
Couples to get £2,000 per child in tax breaks(04 of10)
Working couples will get a tax break worth £2,000 per child, Nick Clegg has said. It will mean that they will not have to pay basic-rate tax on the first £10,000 they spend on nurseries, nannies or childminders.Stay at home mothers and fathers though may feel rather discriminated against.
Help for failed bank loan applicants(05 of10)
Bankers will have to refer small businesses that fail to get a loan to alternative lenders in new rules that Osborne is thinking of bringing in, the Times reports.
Freezing a tax on fossil fuels(06 of10)
Osborne is expected to continue his war on green taxes by freezing the carbon price floor in his Budget this week, which is a tax on fossil fuels used to generate electricity.
A bigger "workers' bonus" (07 of10)
Osborne is expected to raise the tax-free allowance by £500 to £10,500. The Lib Dem demand will cost £1.5 billion and is billed by Nick Clegg as a "workers' bonus".
An income tax cut (08 of10)
Osborne is reported to be planning to cut 1p off the basic rate of income tax, slashing it from 20p to 19p.The move would be worth £160 to those on average salaries of £26,500, according to the Sunday People.
No fuel duty rise(09 of10)
Osborne pledged to freezefuel duty until May 2015, provided he can find the money to pay for it.
What about those welfare cuts?(10 of10)
Osborne will reveal how much welfare spending will be capped at in the first step towards making £25 billion of welfare cuts.
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8 Bizarre Budget Facts
The word comes from the French "bougette", a little bag.(01 of07)
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The shortest Budget was Disraeli's in 1867: 45 minutes.(02 of07)
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The longest Budget speech was four hours 45 minutes by Gladstone in 1853.(03 of07)
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Someone here has a broken foot(04 of07)
In 2012, Treasury minister Chloe Smith had a broken foot in this picture. "I had patched it up in order to be able to stand in the photograph," she told HuffPost recently in parliament. "I'd broken it in here running to a vote." (credit:PA)
This box had nothing but whisky in it(05 of07)
When Norman Lamont was Chancellor in the early 1990s, the bag which was waved at photographers outside No 11 contained a bottle of whisky, while the speech itself was carried in a plastic bag by his then aide, William Hague. "It would have been a major disaster if the bag had fallen open," Hague said later. (credit:PA)
John Major's Budget in 1990 was the first to be televised live.(06 of07)
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Sir Geoffrey Howe named his dog Budget.(07 of07)
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