Coronavirus crisis casts cloud over Rishi Sunak’s first Budget

Coronavirus crisis casts cloud over Rishi Sunak’s first Budget but pledge to raise national insurance threshold will likely go ahead By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:52 GMT, 6 March 2020 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 6 March 2020 The Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver next Wednesday’s Budget against the most uncertain economic backdrop … Read more

Come on Chancellor Rishi Sunak, brew up a new pensioner bond

Campaigners are calling on the Government to deliver a lifeline to savers in the Budget. National Savings and Investments (NS&I) last month announced cuts to more than a dozen products, while interest rates offered by High Street banks and building societies have been in freefall for months. Money Mail has long demanded better rates to … Read more

New Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s March 11 budget plans ‘are thrown into chaos’ by coronavirus

New Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s March 11 budget plans ‘are thrown into chaos’ by coronavirus – as global stock markets brace for another wipeout week Global crisis last week spooked investors and sent stock markets into free-fall  Traders are braced for another bruising week on world’s blue-chip exchanges  The Office for Budget Responsibility is expected to … Read more

Will Rishi Sunak be brave enough to get rid of the UK’s 60p tax rate?

SIMON LAMBERT: Will the Chancellor be brave enough to get rid of Britain’s 60p tax rate? By Simon Lambert for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 06:00 GMT, 27 February 2020 | Updated: 09:00 GMT, 27 February 2020 It’s high time that Britain got rid of its 60p tax rate, but will the new Chancellor be brave enough? The … Read more

John McDonnell mocks Rishi Sunak as ‘deputy chancellor’ to No 10 aide  Dominic Cummings

John McDonnell mocks Rishi Sunak as ‘deputy chancellor’ saying No 10 aide Dominic Cummings is in real control of the Treasury ahead of this month’s Budget By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 09:36 GMT, 1 March 2020 | Updated: 10:18 GMT, 1 March 2020 Rishi Sunak was mocked as ‘deputy chancellor’ today by … Read more

Chancellor Rishi Syunak plans £3billion tax grab in the Budget

Chancellor Rishi Syunak plans £3billion tax grab in the Budget which will hit start-up businesses New Chancellor Rishi Sunak is planning to target entrepreneurs in the budget  Treasury determined to press ahead with plans to abolish entrepreneurs’ relief  Resolution Foundation called it ‘UK’s worst tax break’ and called for scrapping  By Glen Owen Political Editor For … Read more

Chancellor Rishi Sunak plots a pension lockdown under plans to delay the age to 57 

Millions of savers could have to wait another TWO YEARS to dip into their pensions under amid controversial Treasury plans to raise age for cashing in to 57 Chancellor Rishi Sunak under pressure to raise the minimum pension age to 57  Mr Sunak is due to deliver his first Budget in just weeks on March … Read more

Chancellor Rishi Sunak putting up fuel duty would be ‘flashing V-signs’ at ordinary voters

Putting up fuel duty in the Budget would be the equivalent of ‘flashing V-signs’ at ordinary voters, a senior Tory warned last night. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is said to be considering ending the ten-year freeze on fuel duty in next month’s Budget as he tries to find the cash to pay for Boris Johnson’s spending … Read more

Tory MPs write to Chancellor Rishi Sunak urging him to drop plans for fuel duty rise

Tory MPs write to Chancellor Rishi Sunak urging him to drop plans for fuel duty rise amid fears it could alienate newly-converted Conservative voters in former Labour heartlands Around a dozen Tory MPs in ‘Red Wall’ seats written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak Group said a rise in fuel duty would ‘send the wrong message’ to … Read more

Inheritance tax ‘loophole’ could be closed in Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget 

Inheritance tax ‘loophole’ that allows wealthy families to avoid levy by investing in farmland could be closed in Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget Currently people can invest in assets and their children don’t pay inheritance tax The rules exist to allow family-owned businesses or farms to be passed on However, some critics say this is simply … Read more