4 hours ago ANDREW NEIL: Starmer said whatever he thought would get him elected and is now reneging on it: prepare for the biggest tax raid in history

Only three brief months since the 2024 General Election and already we can safely consign pretty much everything Labour had to say about tax during the campaign to the dustbin of history.

Politics

6 hours ago Record number of businesses 'on the edge of collapse' amid Budget uncertainty, shock research reveals

Bosses are 'holding their breath' ahead of the Budget later this month amid fears that Rachel Reeves is plotting a tax raid on businesses, including an increase to employers' NI payments.

Economics

6 hours ago Chancellor must not 'punish' military families with Labour's tax raid on private schools 'at a time of such global instability', Tory peer urges

Ten days before the Budget, Lord Kempsell has written to Rachel Reeves warning Labour 'should not be punishing military families at a time of such global instability'.

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8 hours ago Rachel Reeves set to keep income tax thresholds frozen... But claims it's NOT a manifesto breach because it's not an increase!

Despite Labour pledges not to increase the tax burden on working people, the Chancellor is said to be prolonging the 'stealth tax' raid beyond 2028 - the end point originally given by Rishi Sunak.

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16 hours ago 'It's become a monster': Kirsty Allsopp leads furious backlash against Rachel Reeves' Budget plan to cut stamp duty and inheritance tax relief for families alongside tax raid on petrol and vapes

The Chancellor will reportedly end a temporary increase to the stamp duty threshold, landing house buyers with a £2,500 bill that will add £1.8billion to Treasury coffers.

Economics

21 hours ago Four ways the government could increase inheritance tax in upcoming Budget raid

The Chancellor is expected to target a number of exemptions and loopholes in the inheritance tax regime in order to bring in billions of pounds from the estates of the dead

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25 hours ago UK inheritance tax raid would be ‘painful’ but not fatal for Aim, says LSE executive

Investors are nervous about potential abolition of business relief in this month’s Budget

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