Levy on inherited farms and family businesses worth £2.5m or more comes into force 6 AprilA new inheritance tax regime for UK farms and family businesses comes into force on Monday and will present “significant...
Read MoreRichard Walker says any planned September rate rise should be scrapped to reflect increase in petrol pricesA cut to fuel duty should be extended to reflect the rise in petrol prices, the government’s cost of living...
Read MoreHampshire business seems to have benefited from ‘phoenixism’, which costs the taxpayer about £800m a yearA UK recruitment business has been acquired out of administration for a third time in four years as part...
Read MoreThis blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereKemi Badenoch has said that Keir Starmer just received a “stay of execution” yesterday. Speaking to reporters on a visit this morning, she said:[Starmer]...
Read MoreBankers and billionaires are flocking to the city where income tax is zero but critics say it ignores money laundering – and pay disparities are huge Business live – latest updatesAidan Doyle was an estate agent in...
Read MoreTaxpayers talk of having to borrow cash and wait for months amid ‘significant backlogs’ in processing of claimsSome people are waiting a year or more for HM Revenue and Customs to refund overpaid tax and national...
Read MorePrevious policy would have led to inheritance tax being levied on farms valued at over £1mAnnouncing the inheritance tax change (or U-turn – although she is not calling it that), Emma Reynolds, the environment...
Read MoreCash is now being distributed using a new Fair Funding formula that gives greater weighting to local authorities with high ‘deprivation’ scoresSome of England’s most-deprived councils to receive funding...
Read MoreCash is now being distributed using a new Fair Funding formula that gives greater weighting to local authorities with high ‘deprivation’ scoresSome of England’s most-deprived councils to receive funding...
Read MoreTerry Ball – renowned shoe salesman, friend to former mafiosi – has vowed to spend his remaining years finding ways to cheat authorities he feels have cheated him. His greatest ruse? A tax-dodging snail empireIt is a...
Read MoreContrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifferenceThe new “mansion tax” announced by Rachel Reeves in...
Read MoreThe high-value council tax surcharge may only raise £400m but it’s the best opportunity for a bigger, fairer tax on wealthRachel Reeves won little credit last week for lifting the lid on one of the most heated tax...
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