By: Ali Lyon

Chief reporter Ali Lyon is the chief reporter at City AM, responsible for covering the full gamut of business, finance and wealth news. He has been at City AM full-time since July 2024. Get in touch with tips via email: ali.lyon@cityam.com. Follow Ali on X: @alilyon_94

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Autumn Budget: Which taxes will Rachel Reeves hike?

October 22, 2024

With the Autumn Budget set to be delivered in just a few days, speculation about which taxes Chancellor Rachel Reeves will opt to raise has reached fever pitch. On entering No 11 Downing Street, Reeves commissioned the Treasury to conduct a thorough spending audit, which she claimed unearthed a “fiscal black hole” of £22bn, paving [...]
Desperate rich Brits seeking homes abroad in record numbers, say estate agents

October 21, 2024

Super-rich Brits are looking at properties in popular expat destinations in record numbers, several leading estate agents have told City AM, as they prepare to flee “in desperation” from any punitive measures introduced at next week’s Budget. Enquiries to luxury property specialist Christies International Real Estate Dubai have trebled in recent months, one agent said, [...]
Non-dom exodus could cost UK 23,000 jobs, disputed report claims

October 18, 2024

Scrapping the non-dom tax regime could cost the UK £6.5bn and 23,000 jobs in the next ten years, a think tank has claimed in a report whose findings were questioned by leading academics. The study, published by free market think tank the Adam Smith Institute (ASI), suggests that abolishing the special status for wealthy foreigners [...]
‘Broken’ inheritance tax ripe for reform at Budget, think tank says

October 17, 2024

The government must reform the UK’s “broken inheritance tax system”, a respected think tank has urged, after fresh research found uncapped exemptions in the current framework means a quarter of estates worth over £10m pay a rate of just nine per cent. The Centre for Analysis of Taxation (CenTax) paper, published on Thursday, revealed the [...]
Tiered tax regime could stop non-dom exodus, lobby group argues

October 16, 2024

A controversial ‘Tiered Tax Regime’ (TTR) charging wealthy foreign nationals a flat rate of tax based on their net wealth would make the UK a more attractive proposition to high net worth individuals and help stem the departure of non-doms, a fresh study has argued. Under the proposal, which the authors claim has the overwhelming [...]
Oil prices slide on Israel vow to avoid Iran refineries with retaliation

October 15, 2024

Oil prices tumbled by over four per cent on Tuesday after soft economic readings from China and reports that Israel has assured the US it would avoid oil and nuclear facilities in its expected retaliation on Iran. The price of Brent crude dropped 4.4 per cent – or $3.42 (£2.61) a barrel – and WTI [...]
National Insurance hike will be ‘difficult’ for businesses, warns CBI boss

October 15, 2024

Increasing employers’ National Insurance contributions will make it “harder for businesses to create the jobs and the growth” needed to “help fund our public services”, the boss of one of the UK’s largest business groups has warned. Speaking a day after Keir Starmer refused to rule out hiking National Insurance contributions paid by businesses, Rain [...]
Public backs online gambling tax raid as rumours of duty hike swirl

October 15, 2024

Hiking taxes on online casino gambling would raise the government as much as £900m and has the support of over half of UK voters, according to a report from an influential think tank. The study by centrist think tank the Social Market Foundation (SMF), proposed a doubling of the rate of tax on online gambling, [...]
Smith & Nephew hits back at claims it massaged profit margins

October 14, 2024

Embattled hip and knee implant maker Smith & Nephew has hit back at a report claiming that it deployed aggressive accounting techniques to bolster its profit margins.
Gambling stocks Flutter, Entain and Evoke nosedive on Budget tax fears

October 14, 2024

Shares in British gambling firms plummeted on Monday morning after reports that the government was eyeing up £3bn tax rises on the sector in a move that one investment bank said would “all but wipe out bookmaker profitability in the UK”. William Hill-owner Evoke saw its share price crater by over 13 per cent in [...]

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