France detains British boat amid ongoing Brexit fishing conflict October 28, 2021 A British trawler has been detained by authorities in France as an ongoing dispute over fishing rights increasingly escalates. It has emerged that two boats were fined late last night after one failed to comply with checks by police and the other was found not to hold a proper licence, according to the French maritime [...]
Forget the pandemic: Brexit’s impact on UK economy will be much worse, warns fiscal chief October 28, 2021 The consequences of the UK leaving the European Union will be much more serious than the economic impact of the pandemic, the boss of the UK’s fiscal watchdog warns this morning. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) had assumed leaving the EU would “reduce our long run gross domestic product by around 4 per cent”, [...]
Hundreds of thousands of Brits receive mystery Amazon parcels in ‘brushing’ scam October 28, 2021 A scam known as “brushing” may have impacted up to 1m UK households after they received mystery Amazon parcels designed to boost the rankings of third party sellers. Consumer group Which? said it was concerned at the numbers of households reporting receiving a mystery Amazon package at their home address that they did not order [...]
Budget: Brits face flat recovery for household living standards, Sunak warned October 28, 2021 The average household could see their tax rise by thousands of pounds during Boris Johnson’s premiership, a think tank has warned, as Rishi Sunak’s Budget has the country set for a flat recovery for living standards. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said the Budget would leave the overall tax burden at its highest since [...]
Rishi Sunak’s Autumn Budget: A quick overview of what has been announced October 27, 2021 Downing in numbers and announcements? No worries, here are the main points from Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget. – The Budget is focused on the “post-Covid” era, according to the Chancellor, and will pave the way for the “Prime Minister’s economy of higher wages, higher skills, and rising productivity”. – Independent forecaster the Office for Budget [...]
Champagne in Canary Wharf: Sunak helps banks to save £4bn following Budget cut in surcharge tax October 27, 2021 The cut to the banking surcharge, announced in today’s Budget, will help UK banks to save £4bn in the next five years. A surcharge of 8 per cent was cut to 3 per cent by Chancellor Rishi Sunak to “maintain the competitiveness of our financial services”, he said. As a result, the amount paid by [...]
D-Day for Rishi Sunak: What do City insiders expect from the Autumn Budget? October 27, 2021 In today’s Autumn Budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak will outline how he plans to “drive growth while keeping the public finances on a sustainable path”. City A.M. checked in with a number of Square Mile professionals this morning to see what they hope or expect the Budget will bring today. VAT Yesterday the news broke that there will [...]
Budget: Government risks lost generation of self-employed Brits, warns tax leader October 27, 2021 Ahead of the Budget today, the Chancellor has been urged to resist introducing further tax changes that offer ‘quick wins’ for the economy but deal long-term, or even permanent, damage to the UK’s self-employed workforce. After breaking a Conservative manifesto pledge in September by announcing the social care levy, which will see national insurance and [...]
Today’s Budget: Sunak’s dilemma of greater spending vs balancing the books October 27, 2021 Later today, Chancellor, Rishi Sunak will reveal the government’s tax and spending plans in the 2021 Budget. It is widely expected Sunak will focus on support for businesses and individuals in the aftermath of Covid 19. Spreading the wealth around the UK with the government’s ‘levelling up’ promises, as well as its plans for greener energy [...]
City banks and financial services firms bet heavily on tech and data analytics October 27, 2021 Banking and financial services firms plan to step up their tech investments in the coming 12 months to improve both front and back-end technology. In fact, nearly three in four financial institutions has made improving the quality of their core technologies a priority, while 65 per cent of financial services players plan to pump more [...]
