Weekly News

Conservatives pledge £5,000 tax rebate for young home buyers; The EU’s new border rolls out, will replace passport stamping at border control; Brits opt for mobile phone payments as cash usage declines.

HMRC Urges 758,000 Young People to Claim Unused Child Trust Funds; Prime Minister’s Labour Conference Focuses on Immigration Policy and Education Reform; Packaging Tax Increases Cost Pressures, UK Food Inflation May Rise by Another 0.5%

HMRC to resume taking tax owed by debtors directly from their bank accounts; The government has announced plans to introduce a digital ID system across the UK; Starmer denies putting seven-acre field in trust to avoid inheritance tax

State pension likely to rise by 4.7% in April! Temu’s UK operation doubles revenues and pre-tax profit! Reeves plots ‘taxi tax’ as borrowing costs soar

HMRC raises small business ‘phoenixing’ tax loss to £836mn！150,000 people join 'Unite the Kingdom' march in London! UK economy saw zero growth in July

UK Deputy Prime Minister admits to underpaying property tax and steps down; UK rents hit a record high with the cheapest regions revealed; Shein faces a UK tax storm as billions in revenue “flow” to Singapore.

Number of countries suspending parcel shipments to the US grows to 25! More than £8bn wiped off British banks over Reeves tax raid fears! Electric cars eligible for £3,750 discount announced

Reeves considering new property tax on houses worth more than £500,000; Rail fares in England on path to rise by 5.8% next year on back of inflation data; Record 111,000 UK asylum applications in past year

State pension alert: DWP called to raise payments to £586 a week and slash retirement age to 60; Online fashion retailer Shein’s UK sales leap by a third to more than £2bn; UK Cuts Dividend Tax Allowance Twice: 3.6 Million Investors Now Face Tax

Rachel Reeves needs to put up taxes to cover £40bn deficit; HMRC could claw back VAT from private school advance fee schemes; Interest rate cut to lowest level in more than two years

UK investors buy gold coins in record numbers to mitigate against tax; UK retailers warn of more price hikes as tax costs bite; Biometrics to replace stamps at EU border from 12 October

The UK Chancellor is considering ending the pension 'triple lock' system and introducing charges for NHS treatments; over 24 local councils are pushing for a four-day workweek, with South Cambridgeshire District leading the way by making it permanent; UK MPs jointly call for the introduction of a 'wealth tax'.

Rachel Reeves has announced the ‘biggest financial regulation reforms in a decade; 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in next general election; UK unemployment rises and wage growth slows as jobs market ‘weakens’

UK's pension triple lock to cost three times more; Donald Trump announces 30% tariff on imports from EU; HMRC confirms new income tax change starts next April

HMRC's urgent warning to seven million UK households over tax rates; U-turn in UK Welfare Reform: Planned Fiscal Savings May Evaporate; The EU is considering imposing high tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.

HMRC to reduce taxpayer letters in £50m cost-cutting plan; UK considers taxing pensioners to claw back winter fuel payment; Energy bills could be cut by up to 25% for thousands of UK businesses.

Millions of people will receive a £150 energy bill discount; the Chancellor is considering easing inheritance tax reforms to curb capital outflows; the Bank of England keeps the base interest rate at 4.25%.

The UK economy shrank by 0.3% in April, with further tax hikes and spending cuts likely; council tax is expected to increase by 5% annually; the UK unemployment rate has risen to its highest level in four years.

100,000 HMRC accounts hit as scammers steal £47m in phishing attack; Winter fuel payments to be reinstated this year; First-time buyers typically borrowing for 31 years

Prime Minister says government 'will look at' scrapping two-child benefits limit; Labour plots ‘family bathtime tax’ on water bills; Reeves outlines plan for £25bn pension 'megafunds'.