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Chancellor George Osborne confirms extra 3% stamp duty in budget 2016

Buy-to-let landlords have been dealt a new blow in the Budget after the Chancellor abandoned plans to exempt 'significant investors' from the extra 3 per [...]

Sterling slides as George Osborne misses debt and economic growth forecasts

Chancellor George Osborne has missed his GDP and debt forecasts for this financial year, sending sterling down to a fresh monthly low against the dollar [...]

Tax-free limit to rise to £20k despite new personal savings allowance

Savers will be able to save tax-free to the tune of £20,000 from April 2017, George Osborne announced in his Budget today.At present, savers can [...]

George Osborne hikes personal allowance and cuts 40p tax threshold in today’s budget

UK taxpayers will be able to hold on to more of their hard-earned cash after the Chancellor increased income tax-free earnings in today's Budget.Delivering another [...]

Budget 2016: George Osborne promises business tax reforms

Small businesses can rejoice today after the government permanently extended its business rate relief scheme, and cut the overall level of corporation tax to 17 per cent.In [...]

Budget 2016 sees young savers handed up to £1,000 a year bonus with new Lifetime ISA

Young workers will no longer have to choose between saving for a home or retirement, as the Chancellor revealed a new Lifetime Isa with a [...]

George Osborne’s 2016 Budget shocks Britain by including a sugar tax

George Osborne's 25p per litre sugar tax on super-sweet drinks was this evening branded a 'fat tax' with 'no evidence of success' in tackling childhood obesity.Economists [...]

BUDGET 2016 IN BRIEF: The key points of George Osborne’s speech at a glance

BUDGET 2016 IN BRIEF: The key points of George Osborne’s speech at a glance By Jonathon Hopkins for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 12:12 BST, 16 March 2016 [...]

George Osborne to axe the Money Advice Service in the Budget 2016

Chancellor George Osborne has scrapped the costly Money Advice Service, less than six years after it was set-up in an attempt by the Government to [...]

George Osborne lifts thousands out of 40p tax, freezes petrol duty and cuts business rates

George Osborne today finally offered relief to the middle class after six years of pain as he announced the 40p income tax threshold would rise [...]

George Osborne will say Budget 2016 will see beer tax frozen after 3 year reduction

Beer tax frozen despite hopes of a cut: Chancellor to say £4bn hole in public finances has prevented him from reducing the tax again George [...]

DAN HYDE: Use the Budget to scrap all tax on our savings

Blimey, the tax office really has got itself into a terrible mess over George Osborne’s savings revolution.The changes don’t even kick in until next month, [...]

Interactive Budget map reveals the top-searched issues across Britain

The top-searched issues ahead of tomorrow's Budget are revealed by MailOnline today. An analysis of the most searched Budget topics over the past year have been [...]

David Cameron’s ‘Help to Save’ scheme was ‘Labour’s idea’, party claim

Prime Minister David Cameron said the new help to save policy in Wednesday's Budget was part of his 'all out assault on poverty'David Cameron today [...]

Business calls for £1.6bn rates boost from the Budget

Businesses are urging the Chancellor to deliver a radical overhaul of business rates in this week’s Budget to save firms a massive £1.6 billion over [...]

George Osborne at risk of breaching his deficit target for 2016

Chancellor George Osborne can only borrow £7billion in February and March if he wants to stay within his borrowing target for the year Chancellor George Osborne [...]

Budget 2016 blues for George Osborne as Deficit reduction target in trouble

Record tax receipts helped public finances to their largest January surplus in eight years, it was revealed today - but this might still not be [...]

How mortgages work: Your essential guide to paying for a home

Houses are expensive. The average home in the UK costs £268,000, according to the Office of National Statistics - and that's almost ten times the [...]

BBC viewers face more repeats due to corporation’s budget changes

Viewers are facing the prospect of yet more TV repeats under cost-cutting changes at the BBC.A raft of measures to cut the corporation’s massive budget [...]

Why shopping at Aldi may only save you £5 a month: Meagre savings because middle-class still only do part of the shopping at budget retailers

Middle class shoppers switching to Aldi and Lidl are only saving £5 a month on groceries, figures show.The average customer of the budget chains is [...]

Police must merge 43 forces in England and Wales to cope with budget cuts

Police forces will have to merge to cope with having their budgets slashed by up to a quarter, senior officers have warned.The existing 43 forces [...]

Now police won’t visit even if your home was burgled because of budget cuts

Chief Constable Sara Thornton (pictured), the £252,000-a-year head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said burglary victims should no longer expect police officers to come [...]

Inheritance tax Budget reforms a boon to retirement apartment builders

Inheritance tax Budget reforms a boon to retirement apartment builders By Laura Chesters For The Daily Mail Published: 22:16 BST, 26 July 2015 | Updated: [...]

Defence budget ‘widened’ to hit Nato’s 2% target

Michael Fallon effectively admitted to 'creative accounting' yesterday in a bid to comfortably hit the Nato target of two per centMichael Fallon effectively admitted to [...]

George Osborne’s ‘living wage’ means councils face extra £1 BILLION budget cut

Councils face a £1billion a year increase in their wage bills because of George Osborne's 'living wage' pay hike, Town Hall chiefs claimed today.The Local [...]

BUDGET 2015: Winners and losers from George Osborne’s reforms of inheritance tax, minimum wage and pensions

Wednesday's Budget rolled out big reforms – of inheritance tax, the minimum wage and pensions. In this must-read special report, The Mail on Sunday’s awardwinning [...]

George Osborne and his 13m Budget losers as families to lose £260 a year

Thirteen million families will lose an average of £260 a year thanks to George Osborne’s decision to freeze working-age benefits, independent experts said last night.The [...]

Treasury at war over £39b tax grab as George Osborne’s Budget transforms pensions

Radical plans to axe up to £34billion worth of annual tax perks on pension pots has triggered a fierce row within the Treasury.Branded risky and [...]

George Osborne’s Budget has given the taxman powers to raid your accounts

The taxman has been given sweeping new powers to raid bank accounts and cash Isas to recover debts in a matter of weeks.Small print in [...]

Summer Budget 2015 income tax changes at a glance: How much less will you pay from next April?

How much better or worse off will you be from April this and next year following the summer Budget announced yesterday?The Chancellor George Osborne tinkered [...]

What the Budget dividend tax changes mean and 10 tips for minimising income tax

George Osborne revealed a shake-up in the way dividend income is taxed In the summer Budget yesterday. All taxpayers will have a tax-free dividend allowance of [...]

Alistair Darling says Labour ‘in disarray’ by Budget 2015 and has no economic policy

Labour has been left in 'complete disarray' by George Osborne's Budget, the former chancellor Alistair Darling has admitted.The Labour heavyweight, who spent 13 years in [...]

Budget 2015 to give HMRC power to raid current accounts and cash Isas

HMRC will be able to dip into individuals' current accounts and savings held in cash Isas to recover tax debts from the autumn, it was [...]

Interest rates to be left on hold as policymakers weigh Budget plans

Bank of England policymakers chewed over George Osborne's action-packed Budget today and assessed the state of the UK's economic recovery in the face of global [...]

George Osborne donned a more traditional suit for Budget 2015 speech

He was widely ridiculed earlier in the year for turning up to deliver the Budget in a pair of ankle-grazing trousers.But the Chancellor donned a [...]

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Budget makes Britain a better place to work

It was almost possible to feel sorry for Labour’s acting leader Harriet Harman, who had the hopeless task of replying for her partyAfter such a [...]