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    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      HMRC faces rising demand as more savers are forced into tax net

      UK authority warns of additional costs following concerns it could be swamped by inquiries

      An HM Revenues & Customs letterhead surrounded by new £1 coins and a £5 note
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      News in-depthUK business
      Better UK productivity requires longer-term tax breaks, say business leaders

      Calls for permanent capital allowances come ahead of government’s Autumn Statement

      DS Smith said: ‘Our productivity in the UK is lower than in France. It is solely due to investment.’
    • Saturday, 4 November, 2023
      Steve Webb
      Turmoil lies ahead for the pensions lifetime allowance

      What can savers expect if the abolition of the limit is reversed after a general election?

    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Personal Finance
      Self-employed warned over sleepwalking to tax bill shocks

      HMRC rule change on reporting profits will affect hundreds of thousands

      HMRC headquarters in London
    • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
      Richard Layard
      Rationing access to apprenticeships is increasing the UK’s skills deficit

      Places for vocational training should be funded in the same way as degrees and match demand from young learners

      Apprentices work at a BAE academy in Cumbria. Sixty years ago the route to social mobility was as a part-time apprentice or trainee, but we have shamefully neglected it
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
      Do I need to make a will before my surrogate child is born?

      The baby is biologically related only to my partner

      A mother holds a newborn baby
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
      What is the best way to divide our assets?

      My husband and I are in the process of divorcing

    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      FT WealthRhymer Rigby
      Wealth flight: should we care when the rich threaten to go into tax exile?

      High earners often warn they will up and move when taxes are raised, but in the long term they are better off staying put

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    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      News in-depthBernie Ecclestone
      How the UK taxman finally caught up with Bernie Ecclestone

      Former motor racing mogul has agreed to pay £652mn to settle decades-long battle over offshore assets, with HMRC ‘slowly turning the screw’

    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Bernie Ecclestone
      Bernie Ecclestone pleads guilty to £400mn tax fraud

      Former Formula One boss to pay record £652mn after admitting failure to declare overseas assets to UK authorities

      Bernie Ecclestone, 92, arrives at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
      HMRC clashes with young investors over Isa rules

      Row over holding fractional shares in tax-free accounts intensifies ahead of Autumn Statement

      HMRC clashes with young investors over Isa rules
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Moira O'Neill
      How to make the right type of withdrawal from your pension

      Growing cost of living fears can lead to hurried decisions that could prove more expensive than expected later

    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Rishi Sunak’s tax freeze nets UK government £40bn bonus

      Rising inflation has increased the number of people who will be paying the levy for the first time

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    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Cost of extending UK business tax break ‘vastly inflated’, study finds

      IFS research shows price of full expensing of plant and machinery investment less than OBR forecast suggests

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    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
      Will my annual bonus count in my divorce financial settlement?

      It varies every year but is usually quite substantial

    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      Conservative Party UK
      Hunt says no short-cuts on tax cuts

      Chancellor to pledge minimum wage rise and benefit sanctions amid escalating conference row

      Jeremy Hunt making his way to the Tory party conference in Manchester
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Conservative Party UK
      Sunak will not commit to tax cuts as fractious Tory conference starts

      Prime minister says beating inflation is the priority despite pressure from his party to make pre-election giveaway

      Rishi Sunak speaking to TV host Laura Kuenssberg
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Carbon tax
      UK exporters face hefty EU carbon tax bill after Sunak weakens climate policies

      UK carbon market collapse lets Brussels benefit from revenues that would previously have gone to Treasury

    • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
      Stuart Kirk
      Inheritance tax debates overlook the psychology of the thing

      These levies may be almost irrelevant to the economy, but they stir up strong feelings on mortality and family

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    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Personal Finance
      How UK inheritance tax compares internationally

      Conservatives reported to be considering scrapping estates levy

    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Labour says it will not strip private schools of charitable status

      Party officials shift focus to making independent schools pay VAT and business rates in event they win power

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    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Pensions
      UK savers continue to raid pensions as inflation takes its toll

      £4bn withdrawn between April and June this year

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    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Scrapping UK inheritance tax hands £1mn to richest 1%, finds IFS

      Abolition would cost Treasury about £7bn a year and favour wealthiest households, says study

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    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Explainer
      The calculations behind Sunak’s potential inheritance tax shake-up

      Though unpopular, IHT is paid by few in UK and revenue lost would have to be made up for elsewhere

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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Hunt plans Isa overhaul to boost share ownership

      Treasury looks to simplify tax-free savings regime and weighs new allowance for investments in UK companies

      Jeremy Hunt and an ISA application topsheet
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