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“Who will benefit from the chancellor’s NI cuts?”
I doubt this will come up in many pub quizzes, but the answer is employees, and the self-employed...
“Hunt’s national insurance cut: robbing Peter to pay Paul?”
Taking a bullet for you all and the greater good, I’ve listened to Autumn Statement Reaction...
“Will 2023 escape the much-feared recession?”
Is recession just a state of mind? Well partly, as it all depends where you are, what you’re doing...
“Jeremy Hunt ‘comfortable’ with recession to bring down inflation”
‘If it isn’t hurting, it isn’t working’ said another Tory Chancellor, Norman Lamont, at the height...
“Jeremy Hunt waves through biggest tax burden since war in spring budget 2023”
It may have seemed a Bland Budget, but that’s because Hunt got all the nasties out of the way in...
“Business leaders call for stability after PM’s resignation”
When I heard the Fiscal-Event-Mini-Budget announcements (which were, I thought, just that, and no...
“Autumn Budget 2021: Financial services industry reacts”
‘At least bankers on short-haul flights sipping champagne will be celebrating this Budget’ said...
“Our Summary of The Spring Budget”
I play a little game every Budget Day. I count the number of ‘Our Budget Summary’ emails I receive...
“Wales to SHUT borders and ban people travelling from COVID hotspots in UK”
Looks, as I write, as if this domestic border-closing could be good practice for No-Deal-New-Year....
“Autumn Budget to be scrapped this year”
Remember being told to ‘wait until your father gets home’ or sitting outside the headmaster’s...
“Bank of England rate cut just before budget is perfectly timed”
Plenty of conspiracy theories around at the moment, most of them barking. China created the virus...
“Hammond says end of austerity is in sight as he boosts spending”
Anything any Chancellor says about the economy is bound to be positive, unless they’re within...
“What does the 2018 budget mean for you?”
So was it a good Budget? If you’re viewing it from the Daily Express’s shiny end of the glass...
“Pensions annual allowance set to be cut”
In those heady days before the invention of the internet (kids etc), Budget Day was quite a thing...