Aviva backs Reeves pension investment push with new venture capital arm September 2, 2024 Aviva has launched a dedicated venture capital arm today as it rows in behind the government’s drive to pump more pension cash into start-ups. The move by the FTSE 100 pension giant forms part of a wider project to restructure its private market arm, which previously focused solely on real assets. In a statement, Aviva [...]
Reeves urged to soften private equity tax raid over fears of City exodus August 30, 2024 City groups are mounting a final call for the Chancellor to temper a tax raid on private equity fund managers amid fears of an exodus of dealmakers from London. Rachel Reeves’s Treasury has been consulting on plans to lift the levy on carried interest, the personal profits that fund managers make on the sale of [...]
Could Reeves hit the UK with the most punishing capital gains tax in Europe? August 30, 2024 Rachel Reeves could be about the make Britain the most bruising place in Europe for capital gains tax, according to City A.M. analysis.
Starmer can’t keep blaming everything on the Tories August 29, 2024 Starmer will soon find out that he can’t keep piously contrasting himself with the previous government while snatching benefits from pensioners, promoting party donors and paying off his pals in the trade unions, says William Atkinson The most important number for Keir Starmer’s government isn’t 411 seats he won, the £22bn black hole that Rachel [...]
CBI: Roadmap needed as firms struggle amid rising wealth tax rumours August 29, 2024 Publishing a long-term tax roadmap would address the “confidence shortfall” among UK firms, the Confederation for British Industry (CBI) has urged the government, amid swirling rumours of a wealth tax. Businesses are facing “cost pressures” and “middling conditions” and in need of a “major boost to confidence”, the CBI has said, following hints from Sir [...]
Average Northerner to be £210,000 less wealthy as Labour urged to reform taxes amid fears of autumn raid grow August 29, 2024 New analysis from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) showed that the UK's tax regime is "driving regional inequalities" by taxing wealth and income at different levels.
City sounds alarm over Starmer’s ‘painful’ Budget warning August 28, 2024 City figures have sounded the alarm over the Prime Minister’s warning of a “painful” Budget this autumn, urging him not to “punish risk takers” and warning against “taxing wealth creators”. Sir Keir Starmer delivered his first major address from the No10 Rose Garden on Tuesday as he cautioned that the state of the public finances [...]
Starmer’s civil service cronies set a dangerous precedent August 28, 2024 In appointing donors, yes-men and activists to senior roles, the Labour leader is undermining a cornerstone of our democracy: civil service impartiality, says James Price After years and years of criticising the Tories, Labour were meant to be different. We were told that they would be a breath of fresh air, restoring rectitude and ethical [...]
Starmer pledges ‘wealth creation’ – but can his policies deliver it? August 27, 2024 Sir Keir Starmer has cautioned voters his government’s first fiscal statement would be “short-term pain for long-term good”.
‘Painful’ Budget ahead, Keir Starmer warns in gloomy No10 speech August 27, 2024 Sir Keir Starmer has warned Brits to expect a “painful” Budget this autumn as he insisted the state of the public finances is “worse than we ever imagined”. The Prime Minister addressed the nation from the No10 Rose Garden as he cautioned voters his government’s first fiscal statement would be “short-term pain for long-term good”. [...]