Bob Johnson emails: "The Tory budget is Spartan to say the least. It's like saying 'I have debt and so I will buy no food and will not eat until I have cleared my debt and amassed some savings.' Unnecessary damage will be done as a result."

Tweets, external: Worth remembering after all the frenzy: not one mention of the main inheritance tax rate, even in the speech. That awaits the manifesto

Green Party leader Natalie Bennett wasn't impressed by what she sees as a self-congratulatory note in today's Budget statement. "The triumphalist tone about the state of the economy is going to leave a bad taste in the mouth of so many people in Britain who are struggling to get by," she says. UKIP's Patrick O'Flynn, the MEP standing for election in Cambridge, says this is a "rare moment of UKIP-Green Party consensus" - because he too thinks the chancellor adopted "a very ill-advised triumphalist tone". It won't be reflected "in most people's experience of their living standards", he adds.

Matthew Barling
PwC banking partner

Today's announcement will be a blow to the UK banking industry. For a sector already under pressure in terms of profitability as a result of regulatory change and other demands, a further £900m increase in the bank levy will be felt acutely. The short term benefits to the Treasury are perhaps understandable, but this could potentially be at the cost of the longer term growth and competitiveness of the UK as a global financial centre.

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Now giving his reaction to the Budget, shadow chancellor Ed Balls tells the BBC that George Osborne is "out of touch with reality". He says that people voting in the forthcoming election need to know that they are voting for huge cuts if they vote Conservative. "Nothing in this Budget changed that picture", he says. The cuts will be deeper in the next three years than in the previous five, and people need to know that, he says. He predicts it will be the police, armed forces and NHS who will bear the brunt.

Fahad Sayood asks: "How can Britain walk tall with a million people relying on foodbanks?"

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Economics editor Robert Peston asks Paul Johnson from the IFS how Chancellor Osborne could make the £12bn in cuts to welfare spending in the next parliament to meet his targets. Mr Johnson says that if you were to freeze all benefits including pensions you could get there - but that is unlikely to happen, he says. You could take child benefit from even more people, or do something dramatic to housing benefit. But it is "very hard" to cut welfare spending to that degree, he says.

The independent Office for Budget Responsibility might have just dented the Conservatives' claims that this Budget is going to make a big difference - and you don't have to get very far into its overview , externalto find that judgement. Paragraph two begins: "The coalition government's policy decisions in this Budget are not expected to have a material impact on the economy." This is a "very significant statement," Sam Coates of the Times tweets, external.

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies' Paul Johnson says it's a "bit irritating" that we still don't have details - from either of the main parties - where their huge planned cuts over the next few years will hit. "It's a terrible shame to be going into an election without any detail of how the cuts are going to be achieved," he says.

The headlines of the tax, spending and borrowing announcements in the Budget are explained in this four-minute guide. BBC presenters Huw Edwards and Jo Coburn go through some of the key figures from George Osborne.

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Paul Johnson, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, says there was a noticeable change of tone on austerity. "Not much will change over the next couple of years. But the chancellor has reserved substantially what might happen in the long run. He says that austerity could be stopped in the years 2018/19. It's theoretical, as it four or five years down the line. But it's an indication of the future direction."

‏Tweets, external: So the government, that claims to take #climatechange seriously, now offers even more generous tax allowances for extracting North Sea oil.

‏@WendyDodsworth tweets: @BBC_HaveYourSay @BBCNews what about the NHS?

The Children's Society has expressed its frustration at a lack of funding in the Budget for a topic that's been in headlines recently: child abuse and child sexual exploitation. "With extra money available to the chancellor, it is hugely disappointing that the government has yet again failed to make extra funding available to protect children from sexual abuse and to create a register of missing children," chief executive Matthew Reed says. "With local government budgets being squeezed central government must provide extra funding to make sure that vulnerable children and young people get the protection they need to keep them safe."

Kevin Peachey
Personal finance reporter, BBC News

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Chas Roy-Chowdhury
Head of taxation, Association of Chartered Accountants

Combating tax avoidance has been a key plank of this government's rhetoric for the last five years, so today's announcement came as no surprise. We are disappointed that the chancellor has chosen not to wait for the OECD's important work with the G20 to be completed before pressing ahead with his plans. Any measures must be backed up with additional resources for HMRC otherwise they will be nothing more than headline-grabbing soundbites.

tweets, external: No game-changer policies pulled out of the hat that could swing the election. My feeling is Tories saving real rabbits for manifesto #budget

Jordan emails: "As someone who just had to pull out of buying my first home as there simply aren't the mortgages on offer with my level of deposit, I'm really excited by the 'help to buy' ISAs. It's rare that an item in the Budget speaks so loudly to me personally."