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    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      UK public finances
      UK’s debt and welfare payments bill set to soar by more than £50bn

      Forecast of extra annual costs will be fiscal dilemma for next prime minister juggling tax and spending

    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Confronting the reality of the UK energy crisis

      Britain’s most vulnerable households will need more help with soaring fuel bills

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      UK interest rates
      Bank of England raises rates sharply and warns of 13% inflation by end of year

      UK faces protracted recession and biggest squeeze on living standards in 60 years

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      Bank of England
      Liz Truss backers step up attacks on Bank of England over inflation

      Favourite to be next UK prime minister criticises Treasury’s failure to avert economic crisis

    • Sunday, 31 July, 2022
      UK property taxation
      UK companies face ‘iceberg’ of business rates next year

      Industry groups call on government to intervene before increase linked to inflation sinks companies

    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
      Brexit
      UK chemicals sector hit by £2bn Brexit red tape bill

      New ‘UK Reach’ regime has pitted ministers against a broad swath of manufacturing

    • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
      Sebastian Payne
      To abandon levelling up would be a Tory own goal

      Without holding the Red Wall seats, the party has no chance of a fifth election victory

    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      Income tax
      Record number of Britons to pay higher income tax rates after thresholds frozen

      HMRC figures show a 50% increase in people paying at least 40% in 2022-23 compared with 2019-20

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      UK economic growth
      ‘Super deductor’ tax break fails to boost UK business investment

      FT analysis shows negligible impact on a slump that began after 2016 Brexit referendum

    • Friday, 27 May, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      A striking U-turn to alleviate the UK cost of living crisis

      Rishi Sunak’s support for households is welcome, but windfall taxes are a bad policy

    • Friday, 27 May, 2022
      UK inflation
      Johnson and Sunak say household support will not add to UK inflation

      Most economists disagree with chancellor but have offered varied views on precise impact on price trends

    • Friday, 27 May, 2022
      Inside Politics
      Rishi Sunak: bowing to pressure may sink him further

      Plus, what pains Conservatives about the government’s U-turn, and a football dilemma

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      Cost of living crisis
      North Sea oil and gas producers hit back at Sunak’s £5bn windfall tax

      Dismayed sector warns ‘multiyear’ assault on profits will ‘drive away investors’ and cut production

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      News in-depthCost of living crisis
      Sunak statement helps reduce inflation but risks higher rate rises

      Chancellor’s actions deliver hot inflationary potato straight into the lap of the Bank of England.

    • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
      Cost of living crisis
      Sunak to unveil emergency aid over soaring household energy bills

      Chancellor’s measures expected to top £10bn and will target the most vulnerable

    • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
      Sebastian Payne
      Boost to benefits is right way to help the cost of living crisis

      The Treasury may resist but Conservative MPs are increasing their demands to restore the uplift to universal credit

    • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Sunak pledges targeted tax cuts for UK business in autumn Budget

      Chancellor’s promise to CBI designed to boost investment ahead of sharp rise in corporation tax next year

    • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
      UK public finances
      UK government borrowing halves as economy rebounds from lockdowns

      Economists say strong tax receipts give the chancellor more scope to address cost of living crisis

    • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
      Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
      Which prepaid card should I get for my brother’s carers?

      I need one to help pay for his day-to-day personal expenses

    • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
      Martin Wolf
      The future of the UK economy is uncertain

      But Rishi Sunak’s fiscal illusions are not the right response to a series of external shocks

    • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
      Chris Giles
      Rishi Sunak’s decisions have raised the spectre of an ‘inflation tax’

      The effects of rising prices will make the chancellor’s claims to be cutting levies ring hollow

    • Monday, 28 March, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Electric vehicles’ success is a headache for the Treasury

      The UK government should begin to explore what replacements to fuel duty would look like

    • Friday, 25 March, 2022
      Camilla Cavendish
      Where Britons wanted reassurance, Sunak has delivered cynicism

      This government has not thought about the fairest way to share the pain as a cost of living crisis looms

    • Friday, 25 March, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      No winners in Rishi Sunak’s fiscal drag race

      Higher inflation and frozen income tax thresholds undermine attempts to cut tax

    • Friday, 25 March, 2022
      Tax
      Spring Statement: what’s in it for investors and householders?

      The economy is expected to grow, but the hit to our pockets will be as big as in the worst recessions

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