Mark Kleinman: Summit’s up with flagship Labour conference September 12, 2024 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and is the man who gets the City talking in his weekly City A.M. column.
Calls grow for Reeves to shield employees’ shares from capital gains tax hike September 12, 2024 Calls are growing for the government to carve out an allowance on capital gains tax for employee share schemes amid fears a sweeping hike could gut the UK of talent and hammer smaller companies’ ability to retain staff.
‘Hard to justify’: IFS calls for Reeves to limit pension tax-free lump sum September 11, 2024 Rachel Reeves is rumoured to be considering a shake-up of pension tax reliefs in the October Budget as she seeks to address a challenging fiscal inheritance.
Tech chiefs warn Chancellor not to undermine growth with tax hike September 11, 2024 A sweeping hike in capital gains tax (CGT) risks “undermining the chancellor’s growth agenda” and could suck talent and investment away from Britain’s start-ups, some of the country’s top fintech bosses have warned. Industry bodies and tech chiefs mounted a co-ordinated push to topple the suggestion of a blanket rise in CGT yesterday as they [...]
The real fiscal ‘black hole’ is government debt September 11, 2024 When one of the most senior figures in investment banking was asked at a private event last week what keeps him awake at night, he replied “government debt”. A recent House of Lords report will not help him sleep any easier. The Economics Affairs Committee has warned of the “grim reality” that at £2.74 trillion [...]
Winter fuel payments: Just one Labour MP rebels in Commons vote on policy September 10, 2024 Just one Labour MP – Jon Trickett – rebelled against the government in a House of Commons vote on plans to means test the winter fuel payment to pensioners. The government won the vote with 348 votes in favour to 228 against, while some MPs – including 53 Labour members – abstained on the ballot, [...]
Goldman Sachs expects tax hikes of ‘at least’ £20bn in Reeves budget September 10, 2024 Many potential tax reforms have faced criticism for their potential unintended consequences.
Capital gains tax branded ‘ripe for reform’ ahead of Budget September 10, 2024 Capital gains tax is “ripe for reform”, a leading think tank has said, as Chancellor Rachel Reeves considers possible revenue raisers ahead of October’s Budget. With a range of potential tax rises on the table, the Resolution Foundation has joined a chorus of voices arguing that the levy needs to be reformed. In a report [...]
Ditch ‘short-sighted’ share tax and lean on City to back National Wealth Fund, Reeves told September 9, 2024 The Chancellor should axe the “short-sighted” tax on share trading and “sponsor” a set of listed investment vehicles in order to unlock funding for the government’s investment plans, a body of investors has said today. In a call to the chancellor, the Association of Investment Companies (AIC), which represents listed investment trusts in the UK, [...]
No Labour MP wants to cut winter fuel payments, but our commitment to pensioners is steadfast September 9, 2024 Tomorrow’s vote on winter fuel payments will be tough, but making and explaining hard choices is what Labour was elected to do, says Dan Tomlinson Tomorrow I will be voting for something which no Labour MP came into politics to vote for: means testing the winter fuel payment. That I and hundreds of my colleagues [...]