93 m. ago Workers’ pensions expected to soak up costs if Reeves taxes salary sacrifice schemes

Reeves faces employer backlash over a rumoured raid on salary sacrifice schemes

Economics

94 m. ago Rachel Reeves to give EV buyers' grant £1.3bn boost in Budget amid pay

The Chancellor seems set to boost the scheme that knocks up to £3,750 off the price of an electric vehicle.

Economics

1 hour ago Reeves targets cost of living with rail fares freeze amid fears over Budget tax rises

The chancellor hopes measures to tackle the cost of living will offset anger over tax rises

Economics

1 hour ago Major boost for commuters as rail fares frozen for first time in 30 years

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to freeze rail fares at the Budget, saving existing rail passengers £600 million in 2026/27, across more than a billion train journeys

Politics

2 h. ago Rachel Reeves finds £1.5bn to subsidise electric vehicles in net zero drive

The chancellor will take on the climate sceptics in the Tories and Reform with a push to help people buy electric vehicles

Economics

2 h. ago RACHEL REEVES: 'This will be a Budget for you and your family'

'Easing the cost of living is only possible because of the stability we’ve brought back to the economy, and by keeping a grip on spending', the Chancellor writes for The Sunday Mirror

Politics

12 h. ago Facing facts on property tax: Rachel Reeves’s Budget options as she hunts for billions

With Labour’s Budget imminent, the chancellor faces a £22bn hole and a narrowing set of promises on tax. Property, long the quiet corner of the system, may finally be in her sights. Here Sean O’Grady and Albert Toth analyse the options available to Reeves

Economics

13 h. ago Rachel Reeves warned against Budget decision that could cost 'tens of thousands of jobs'

300 businesses and organisations, including Bosch, Mitsubishi, EDF, the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, and Citizen's Advice raised concerns about the future of the industry

Events

15 h. ago Martin Lewis says these two changes need to come in Rachel Reeves 2025 Budget

Martin Lewis has said "It needs to stop" as he offers his advice for next week's Budget

Politics

16 h. ago Voices: ‘Calling her Rachel from accounts is unfair and sexist’: Readers call out gendered attacks on Reeves

Many in our community have highlighted that much of the pre-Budget criticism aimed at the chancellor carries sexist undertones

Events

18 h. ago Why 'it's the Brexit, stupid' should be the political slogan of our times

As Chancellor Rachel Reeves prepares the Budget, she’s missing an estimated £40 billion a year in tax revenues because the UK left the European Union

Politics

24 h. ago Miliband's dash for Net Zero lands millions of families with yet another energy bills hike this winter

Rachel Reeves is now considering action in next week's Budget to remove the cost of things like connecting wind farms to the grid from energy bills and pay for them through general taxation.

Economics

25 h. ago Voters could abandon centrist parties if budget fails, warns former cabinet secretary

Simon Case says voters will look elsewhere if chancellor cannot find solutions to tax, spending and debt problemsVoters will look elsewhere if Rachel Reeves does not use next week’s pivotal budget to show that “centre-ground” politicians can fix the UK’s entrenched economic problems, the former head of the civil service, Simon Case, has said.Case told the Guardian that at the time of last year’s general election, when he was still cabinet secretary, he believed Labour would be forced to break its manifesto promise to not raise taxes because of the state of the public finances. Continue reading...

Events

25 h. ago Major crackdown on illegal vapes in Budget with criminals to face JAIL

Criminals flogging illegal vapes on Britain’s high street will face fresh fines and jail time in a major crackdown to be announce by Rachel Reeves in the Budget

Events

29 h. ago Pension change warning issued to Rachel Reeves ahead of Autumn Budget 2025

'Any limitation could cause long-term damage to people’s retirement prospects'

Events

30 h. ago PM says leaders should ‘stick to their word’ but fails to reaffirm tax pledge

The Prime Minister repeatedly declined to rule out hitting working people with extra tax in the Budget.

Politics

34 h. ago Any salary sacrifice clampdown ‘would hit pension savers, firms and economy’

Pensions UK and the Federation of Small Businesses have sent a joint letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, urging her not to change salary sacrifice.

Economics

35 h. ago Use our income tax calculator to see how the Budget could affect YOU

HOUSEHOLDS may have been spared by an income tax hike, but there are still plenty of other ways YOUR pocket could be picked in the Budget. A stealth tax raid expected to be announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in her Budget next Wednesday is set to hammer households. Millions of workers and pensioners face being...

Economics

35 h. ago Rachel Reeves: ‘I’m sick of the mansplaining on how to be Chancellor'

The UK’s first female Chancellor has spoken out about the sexism she’s faced whilst undertaking the mammoth task of trying to plug the black hole in public finances

Politics

35 h. ago Scrap windfall tax and lift ban on new oil, leading business figures urge Reeves

Martin Gilbert and Sir Ian Wood led two of the biggest firms in Aberdeen.

Economics