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The chancellor almost doubled remote gaming duty in Wednesday’s budget, taking it to 40% from April next yearBudget 2025 – live updatesOnline casinos and bookmakers will pay billions of pounds more in tax under a steep rise in duties levied on their ta…
Strategy paper released with budget allows new oil and gas projects to move ahead if they are linked to existing fieldsThe government has ruled out new North Sea oil and gas exploration or lower taxes for fossil fuel companies as it struggles to protec…
Rishi Sunak’s ‘temporary’ 5p-a-litre cut to be reversed in stages from next September in effort to keep EVs attractiveBudget 2025 – live updatesFuel duty will be frozen again, but only for five months until September 2026, the chancellor has announced,…
Rachel Reeves is freezing tax thresholds in an attempt to plug the hole in the public accounts. Find out how it affects your tax billBudget 2025 – live updatesThe chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has announced that income tax thresholds will be frozen until …
Chancellor unveils action on energy bills, rail fares and two-child benefit cap as OBR reveals £26bn tax risesBudget 2025 – follow liveHow freezing tax thresholds affects your tax bill?Budget 2025: key points at a glanceRachel Reeves has declared her b…
Chancellor says she will not ‘get into semantics’ when questioned on issue after her statementAt a glance: the key points from the budgetHow does freezing income tax thresholds affect you?Paul Nowak, the TUC general secretary, has rejected the concerns…
Parliamentary group urges government to clamp down on overseas territories before flagship anti-corruption summitThe UK government has been accused of caving-in to pressure from the British Virgin Islands by allowing it to limit access to a register of…
Plan to remove relief from scheme that helps provide cars for disabled people likely to concern some Labour MPsRachel Reeves is expected to press ahead with scrapping about £300m in tax breaks for the Motability scheme that helps provide cars for disab…
Levy will also apply to more fizzy drinks as health secretary says government ‘will not look away as children get unhealthier’Business live – latest updatesSweet-toothed consumers face paying more for bottled milkshakes and some fizzy drinks after the …
Move aims to bring in extra £1.2bn of savings as government seeks to head off criticism over welfare spendingYou be the chancellor: play our budget gameRachel Reeves will launch a fresh crackdown on benefit fraud at the same time as lifting the two-chi…