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Hostile market response for budget as chancellor suffers Halloween nightmare
First things first: don’t panic.What you need to know is this. The budget has not gone down well in financial markets. Indeed, it’s gone down about as badly as any budget in recent years, save for Liz Truss’s mini-budget. The pound is weaker. Government bond yields (essentially, the interest rate the exchequer pays on its …
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Football financier Harris spearheads £200m bid for Crystal Palace stake
The football financier Keith Harris is spearheading a bid to buy a 45% stake in the Premier League football club Crystal Palace in a deal that could be worth close to £200m.Sky News has learnt that Mr Harris is advising a group of businessmen including Zechariah Janjua and Navshir Jaffer on an offer to acquire …
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Guardian chief pledges decision on controversial Observer deal by Christmas
A decision on whether to proceed with the controversial sale of The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, will be made by Christmas, its current owner’s boss has told disgruntled staff.Sky News has learnt that Anna Bateson, the Guardian Media Group (GMG) chief executive, notified staff on Thursday that a preliminary assessment of shareholders in …
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Reeves defends inheritance tax changes as farmers slam ‘disastrous’ Budget
Rachel Reeves has defended her Budget following anger from farmers over changes to inheritance tax on agricultural land. From April 2026, the government will cap inheritance tax relief for farms at £1m, with a rate of 20% on anything above that. The chancellor told BBC Breakfast on Thursday the decision was “fair and proportionate”. But …
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Disposable incomes to drop to lowest levels under Labour government since 1955 in wake of tax-raising budget
The next five years will hurt disposable income and wages will stagnate further following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget, an influential thinktank has said.Household disposable income, or living standards, will be the worst under any Labour government since 1955 when inflation is factored in, the Resolution Foundation said. Politics latest: ‘Everything has to be paid for’: …
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Disposable incomes ‘to drop to lowest levels under Labour govt since 1955’ in wake of tax-raising budget
The next five years will hurt disposable income and wages will stagnate further following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget, an influential thinktank has said.Household disposable income, or living standards, will be the worst under any Labour government since 1955 when inflation is factored in, the Resolution Foundation said. Politics latest: ‘Everything has to be paid for’: …
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Chancellor puts up taxes by £40bn – but says she can’t rule out more hikes
The chancellor cannot rule out more tax rises in the next five years, despite raising the burden to its highest level since comparable records began.Speaking to Sky News following Labour’s first fiscal event since 2010, Rachel Reeves said it would be “irresponsible” to promise there will not be further tax rises. However, she suggested that …
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A significant departure – why Labour’s first budget is a big deal
The 2024 Autumn Budget in one word? Big.What we got from Rachel Reeves today was, in economic terms, a major departure from economic policy as we’ve known it in this country for the past decade-and-a-half. We got the single biggest increase in taxes in any fiscal event since 1993. The tax burden itself is now …
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Grocers’ tax burden soars after Reeves slashes NI threshold
Britain’s four biggest supermarkets could see their collective tax bill rise by close to £500m after Rachel Reeves augmented her raid on employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) with bigger-than-expected changes to the threshold at which companies start paying it.Sky News understands that Asda, J Sainsbury, Tesco and Wm Morrison could now face the much-higher tax …
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British companies now face uphill struggle after budget of more tax, more borrowing and more spending
More tax, more borrowing, more spending. This was a big budget by every measure, but will loom largest for businesses that will bear the brunt of the revenue raising.Around £25bn of those tax rises will come from the 1.2 percentage point increase in employer national insurance contributions to 15%. This is a muscular hike even …
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Chancellor promised short-term pain for long-term gain – and we look set for a bumpy ride
The chancellor has finished a statement she’s waited a long 16 weeks to deliver – which she claims will start to deliver the change people voted for. But at quite a price.The headline is tax rises on a historic scale – £40bn raised. Of which £25bn will come from businesses paying more per employee they …
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Budget 2024: Biggest tax rise since 1993 – with employers to bear the brunt
Taxes will increase by £40bn – and the lion’s share will come from a £25bn rise in employers’ national insurance contributions, the chancellor announced in the budget.Rachel Reeves said the amount businesses will pay on their employees’ national insurance contributions will increase from 13.8% to 15% from April 2025. She also lowered the current £9,100 …

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