What's on the Budget wish list?
LONDON (Reuters) - What people would like to see in the Budget and what the Chancellor actually delivers tend to be two different things.
Here are the main points on the "wish lists" of key trade bodies and organisations:
* The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA)
AIFA wants a "Budget for pensions". It supports government plans to introduce a National Pension Savings Scheme in 2012, into which workers will be automatically enrolled, but says it is not without its problems.
Means-testing means that some people would be better off opting out of the new system and good employer-sponsored pension schemes might "level down" to the minimum contribution requirements of the new regime, it says.
Director-general Chris Cummings added: "While we support the principles behind the current pension reform, with more people taking sensible decisions to provide a better pension for themselves, it still requires clarification.
"There are layers of detail that need to be stripped away if the well-intentioned principles are not to undermine the good that exists today."
* The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI)
AMI calls for a "Budget for the mortgage market". It wants to see greater support for first-time buyers, extra liquidity in the market and improved income support for those struggling with repayments. Continued...

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