Inflation at 0.4% after Chancellor’s meal deal ends

Inflation at 0.4% after Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out deal ends By Dan Atkinson, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 17 October 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 17 October 2020 Inflation is tipped to rebound to 0.4 per cent in statistics due out this week.  The September surge in the Consumer … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Investors to be hit by Chancellor’s tax rises?

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Chancellor Rishi Sunak has a beady eye on investors for tax rises to balance the books after coronavirus is beaten By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 10 October 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 10 October 2020 As sure as night follows day, mighty tax rises will come once … Read more

Chancellor’s duty-free ban ‘will lead to the loss of 138,000 jobs’

Chancellor’s duty-free ban ‘will lead to the loss of 138,000 jobs and cost the economy £3.5bn’ By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:52 BST, 2 October 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 2 October 2020 The decision to end duty-free shopping on goods such as perfume, clothing and electronics will lead to 138,000 job … Read more

HAMISH MCRAE: Growth is Chancellor’s way out

HAMISH MCRAE: Creating conditions for growth is Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s way out of the current crisis By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 26 September 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 26 September 2020 A winter chill swept through the markets and the economy last week. The package of support from Rishi Sunak … Read more

Revolution Bars sees sales rise 188% thanks to Chancellor’s discount scheme

Chancellor’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme helps Revolution Bars to an August sales surge – and it will continue offering discounts this month But, bar group warns that 11 of its sites may not reopen any time soon Social distancing rules and rental costs making trading tough for businesses  By Jane Denton For Thisismoney … Read more

Experts will keep Chancellor’s £4.1bn training pot from crooks

Ministers pledge ‘robust measures’ to prevent Chancellor’s £4.1bn for training being plundered by bogus providers By Dan Atkinson, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 18 July 2020 | Updated: 22:12 BST, 18 July 2020 Ministers have pledged ‘robust measures’ to prevent the Chancellor’s £4.1billion for training being plundered by bogus providers.  Acknowledging misuse of … Read more

Chancellor’s stamp duty bung comes under fire for cutting tax for landlords

Will the stamp duty cut be BAD for first-time buyers? Critics warn tax giveaway could revive buy-to-let investors and boost house prices Chancellor’s plans will see 90 per cent of homes pay no stamp duty until March However this includes second-home buyers including property investors Labour have blasted the move as an ‘unnecessary subsidy’ for … Read more

Big names back Chancellor’s £2 billion Kickstart scheme 

Big names back Chancellor’s £2 billion Kickstart scheme to prevent a youth unemployment crisis By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 8 July 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 8 July 2020 Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to hit the phones to drum up support among businesses for his new Kickstart scheme. The … Read more

Stricken shops are left out of the Chancellor’s £30bn stimulus package

Stricken shops are left out of the Chancellor’s £30bn stimulus package as they continue to shed jobs By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 8 July 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 8 July 2020 Britain’s stricken shops were left out of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s £30billion stimulus package. Shops continue to shed jobs … Read more