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Focus: How to take further shelter from the taxman

Against an exceptionally gloomy economic and investment backdrop in April, the chancellor of the exchequer stepped up to the dispatch box and delivered one of the most eagerly anticipated Budget speeches in recent memory. In the teeth of the sharpest of recessions, falling markets and a rising political tide, Alistair Darling unveiled a number of carefully considered initiatives to restore confidence and get the wheels of the economy rolling again.