What ‘Robin Hood Budget’?


Anwar will have to face challenges to ensure transparency in all business dealings as he advocates a totally new culture at the ministry.

THE last thing the Finance Minister wants is for the budget he presented to be labelled a “Robin Hood Budget”. In Nottingham of old, the much-loved folk character in popular culture stole from the rich to give to the poor.

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