Record number of businesses ‘on the edge of collapse’ amid Budget uncertainty, shock research reveals_Nhy
A record number of businesses are ‘teetering on the edge of collapse’ amid uncertainty ahead of the Budget. Shock research yesterday showed thousands of British firms have been plunged into significant financial distress this year. The figure soared by a…
Labour plots a tax raid on your holidays with stealth levy on air fares set to be announced in upcoming Budget cash grab_Nhy
Millions of families face a tax raid on their holidays as part of Rachel Reeves‘s Budget cash grab. As it emerged yesterday that the Chancellor is planning to freeze income tax thresholds for longer, inflation-busting hikes in Air Passenger Duty –…
Labour to stage a budget inheritance tax raid – here’s who it could hit_Nhy
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly planning to launch an inheritance tax raid on savers in the Budget, potentially by changing the key thresholds or other reliefs. Inheritance tax is currently charged at 40 per cent on assets above the main…
Chancellor must not ‘punish’ military families with Labour’s tax raid on private schools ‘at a time of such global instability’, Tory peer urges_Nhy
The Chancellor must announce a reprieve for military and diplomatic families from its VAT raid on private schools, a Conservative peer is urging. Ten days before the Budget, Lord Kempsell has written to Rachel Reeves warning Labour ‘should not be punishing military families at a time…
Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves is warned her inheritance tax hike will decimate middle class savings and leave ‘people who have saved all their life’ without an inheritance to pass to their children_Nhy
Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves has been warned her inheritance tax hike will decimate middle class savings. It has been reported by the BBC that she is planning on increasing the amount of money raised from inheritance tax in her October 30 budget. But as the backlash…
Labour faces fresh demands to U-turn on winter fuel cuts after ‘damning’ new letter_Nhy
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves have axed winter fuel payments for millions of people (Image: Getty) Labour faced fresh demands to U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts after criticism from a committee that scrutinises the Government’s welfare policies. In a…
Labour issued warning over ‘cruel’ Winter Fuel Payment policy_Nhy
The government received criticism over its decision (Image: Getty Images) The shadow work and pensions secretary wants the Government to backtrack on its move to means-test Winter Fuel Payments, insisting they should “follow their own advice, and unpick this cruel policy”….
I’ve voted Labour all my life but can’t forgive ‘freebie’ Starmer for Winter Fuel raid’_Nhy
Linda Southall never believed that Labour would take her Winter Fuel Payment away (Image: Getty) Linda, 67, was so into Labour politics that she would take a week off work simply to watch the party’s annual conference. Yet she still couldn’t…
Labour accused of ‘a naïve attempt to suck up to China’ as David Lammy arrives in Beijing amid claims ministers have gone soft over Uyghur ‘genocide’_Nhy
Labour was accused of ‘a naïve attempt to suck up to China’ today as foreign secretary David Lammy arrived in Beijing for talks. The Foreign Secretary has been accused of backtracking on plans for the UK to formally recognise China‘s treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority as genocide….
Rachel Reeves to hammer families in Budget by ‘cutting inheritance tax and stamp duty relief’ while upping fuel duty to help fill Treasury coffers (and vaping will cost more too)_Nhy
Middle class families appear to be facing a Budget pummelling from Rachel Reeves as she looks to end tax breaks in a scramble for cash. The Chancellor will reportedly end a temporary increase to the stamp duty threshold, landing buyers with a…