They would all be offset by reductions in other taxes, particularly in national insurance contributions.At the risk of sounding party political, my particular concern about the budget was that it proposed to go ahead with an increase in the tax on jobs while it did not offer any noticeable increases in green taxes, apart from some scheduled increases in the landfill levy, for example. The green fiscal commission’s scenario suggested that there would be in the order of 450,000 additional jobs in the UK economy with such a level of green tax shift—it would be a shift, not an increase—over the timescale in question.