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| Sep 22, 2026 | Finance chiefs lobby Healey to protect City from fresh tax grab | City chiefs have warned against a tax grab on financial services and called on ministers to simplify Britain’s “byzantine” tax system, as fears mount that the Chancellor will use his maiden budget next month to launch another raid on the pr... |
| Sep 22, 2026 | How inheritance tax is becoming a ‘bill for ordinary households’ | Inheritance tax receipts have hit a new high as frozen thresholds and rising property values drag more households into the tax net.
Inheritance tax (IHT) receipts have hit £3.8bn so far this financial year, surpassing the £3.7bn recorded at... |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Tax crackdowns means high net worth Brits continue to mull UK exit | UK millionaires continue to keep their options open with a high percentage having considered leaving the UK over high taxes, according to a survey, deepening fears that the government has relied too heavily on the wealthy to boost receipts ... |
| Aug 25, 2026 | Budget 2026: Which taxes will Burnham and Healey hike?
The probable tax hikes | With interest rates on course to remain elevated and a new government keen to win over sceptical voters with cost-of-living measures, economists think tax rises at October’s Budget are all but guaranteed. But where will the new Chancellor l... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Scotland is a warning of what Andy Burnham’s devolution experiment will look like | For an idea of what left-wing devolution yields, look no further than Scotland, where SNP statist’s efforts to extort the wealthy have backfired, writes Joseph Dinnage
For a socialist, Andy Burnham has a funny approach to central government... |
| Jul 28, 2026 | How can wealthy Scots save £46,000 on income tax? Commute from England | Higher earners in Scotland could save more than £46,000 in income tax over five years by moving south of the border and commuting to work, according to a new analysis by Rathbones.
The wealth management firm found that a resident earning £2... |
| Jul 27, 2026 | Industry hits out at rumours as No 10 denies plan to abolish stamp duty and council tax | Andy Burnham is “not considering” scrapping stamp duty and council tax, Downing Street has said, as the government moves to pour cold water on rumours of major tax changes that had spooked property sector leaders.
Business chiefs condemned ... |
| Jul 26, 2026 | Scotland’s tax hike may have backfired as receipt falls | The Scottish government’s decision to raise the top rate of income tax may have backfired, according to analysis by the lawyer Dan Neidle.
Neidle’s research on tax data suggested that a decision to increase the top income tax rate to 48 per... |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Burnham opens door to wealth tax | Andy Burnham has refused to rule out a wealth tax as part of his economic agenda, saying the country needs a “greater sense of fairness”.
In his first formal interview since being all but confirmed as the next Prime Minister, the former Man... |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Legal & General handles King’s staff pension schemes as monarch’s £13m tax bill revealed | Legal & General handles the King’s staff pension schemes, official accounts have shown in disclosures of the monarch’s financial activities.
In the first annual account of the King’s tax bill and sovereign activities, it was revealed th... |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Burnham refuses to rule out ‘exit tax’ as founders warn of wealth exodus | Entrepreneurs are calling for Andy Burnham to rule out an exit tax or risk another wave of Britain’s wealth creators quitting the UK.
Speculation around a so-called ‘settling up’ charge, which would be levied on business owners if they leav... |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Burnham camp goes quiet on hospitality VAT cut | Allies of Prime Minister-to-be Andy Burnham have gone quiet on whether he would slash VAT for hospitality despite previously backing calls to do so and committing to a raft of other measures to support pubs, restaurants and bars.
The outgoi... |
| Jun 20, 2026 | Would a £10bn VAT cut really save hospitality? | Calls for the government to slash VAT on hospitality firms have been backed by pub and restaurant bosses, and Prime Minister hopeful Andy Burnham. What would this tax break really mean for the economy?
The UK’s pubs, hotels and restaurants ... |
| Jun 16, 2026 | Badenoch: City’s risk culture should be ‘championed’ to boost UK growth | Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will pledge that the role of the City of London would be one of her central levers for driving economic growth, whilst suggesting that financial regulators have buckled to pressure from media and political leaders ... |
| May 26, 2026 | Wes Streeting’s capital gains tax plan risks ‘disrupting’ growth | Wes Streeting’s plans to align capital gains taxes while introducing an investment allowance could be “disruptive” for growth as City advisers have become divided over the benefits of sweeping reforms.
Streeting told the BBC last week that ... |
| Mar 15, 2026 | Business bosses told to check details after Companies House glitch | Business directors are urged to check their details after a major glitch on Companies House allowed people to edit the data of other firms, leaving them potentially exposed to fraud.
On Friday, a tech glitch on the UK’s official corporate r... |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Rachel Reeves considering ‘exit tax’ on wealthy Brits fleeing the UK | Rachel Reeves is looking at a tax on wealthy Brits leaving the UK and a mansion tax, as last ditch levers to pull ahead of the Budget.
The Times reported on a possible 20 per cent “settling-up charge” on business assets, which is the rate o... |
| Sep 12, 2025 | HMRC loses over £800m to small business ‘phoenixing’ | HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has lost more than £800m – more than previously estimated – through a tax loophole open to abuse by small businesses in the UK.
The practice, known as ‘phoenixing‘, is where companies are repeatedly liquidate... |
| Sep 4, 2025 | The real villain in the Angela Rayner saga: stamp duty | Labour has launched a patronising defence of Angela Rayner for her “working class” background. They should be gunning for a different target: the insidious tax that’s caused her so much trouble, says Alys Denby
Being working class is, if yo... |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Just how many non-doms are leaving the UK? | Since the Chancellor announced her non-dom crackdown, advisers, campaign groups and economists have warned an exodus of wealthy foreigners is afoot. But after a report claimed that departures were less extreme than feared, Ali Lyon digs int... |
| Aug 6, 2025 | Rachel Reeves needs £50bn tax raid to stick to fiscal rules, economists warn | The Treasury will need to raise more than £50bn in fresh taxes to stay within its fiscal rules, one of the UK’s most prestigious economic groups has warned, laying bare the scale of the pain that could be wrought on businesses by Rachel Ree... |
| Aug 5, 2025 | Labour urged to come clean on exit tax | Labour ministers have been urged to clarify whether the government will introduce an exit tax as Tax Policy Associates chief Dan Neidle warned rumours could be “damaging” for the UK economy.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves looks poised to raise mo... |
| Jul 25, 2025 | Rightmove demands stamp duty overhaul | Rightmove has called on the government to overhaul stamp duty thresholds to help first-time buyers get on the property market.
The UK’s largest property platform urged ministers to increase the thresholds at which the tax kicks in, to refle... |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Third sector warns wealth tax will hit philanthropy | A wealth tax of the sort reportedly being considered by the government would leave a multibillion-pound hole in charities’ finances and jeopardise the work they are able to carry out, third sector bosses and economists have warned.
Accordin... |
| Jul 9, 2025 | UK loses more billionaires than any other country | The UK has lost the most billionaires of any country in the world in the last two years, fresh data has shown, exacerbating fears that Britain’s footloose super-rich residents would continue to flee the country if forced to pay a wealth tax... |
| Jun 23, 2025 | ‘Way too cheap’ – Tax experts question Reform’s £250K non-dom plan | Reform UK’s new ‘Robin Hood’-style non-dom policy has been given a cool reception by top UK tax experts, who have branded it as “too cheap” and warned it could even cost the UK £34bn in lost tax revenue.
Nigel Farage’s party, which currentl... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Fake Entities Are Still Abusing The DMCA Takedown Process To Hide Facts They Don’t Like | The DMCA process remains as easily abused as ever, even as companies like Google (and, especially, Automattic) do what they can to head off this abuse.
It’s a numbers game. When you’re the size of Google, it’s impossible to vet every takedo... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Publishers Lobbied To ‘Axe The Reading Tax’ On Ebooks, Then Paid It To Themselves | One of the (many) villains in “Walled Culture” the book (free ebook versions) is the publishing industry, specifically in the context of the transition from analogue books to ebooks. What could have been one of the most important expansions... |
| Would a VAT cut actually help small hospitality businesses? | The UK’s hospitality industry is showing clear signs of being in peril. As a quarter of businesses are losing money, and pubs close at an alarming rate, industry leaders are calling on the Government to slash VAT rates in half across the se... |
| What does Keir Starmer’s resignation mean for small businesses? | Keir Starmer’s resignation has thrown Westminster into uncertainty, but for small business owners, the focus is already shifting to what comes next.
Andy Burnham, Starmer’s likely successor, claims Labour has previously “got it wrong on bus... |
| Did the Summer Savings scheme prove that VAT really is the problem? | Key takeaways:
The ten-week summer VAT cut has fuelled calls for a permanent, sector-wide reductionA blanket cut wouldn’t reach the businesses most at risk, with 45% of hospitality businesses falling below the VAT thresholdYou can join Tim ... |
