Bad news all round for Financial News' five fictional characters who we revisit each year to assess the effects of UK Budgets. Tax changes will leave all of them all worse off this year, but as well as the hits on salaries and bonuses, private jet tax could leave Alessandro facing the prospect of keeping all his girlfriends in a single house, while Caspar's domestic issues will take a turn for the worse once his wife claims she is shopping on the High Street.

As always, although their names, occupations, firms and styles of living are fictitious, the financial situations they face are real. We are grateful to PWC for calculating the financial impact of the Budget on them.