Budget 2026: summary and reaction to key tax changes
The budget extends VAT and fuel duty relief while adding £1 billion in business rates support for about 70,000 firms.
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A breathing space Budget? This is asphyxiation
If there were treats in John Healey’s pre-Halloween Budget they were hidden in a gloopy soup of tricks. Forget the talk about a low-key, ‘do no harm’ fiscal event; the Chancellor has delivered a mess of new interventions, subsidies, tax rises, quangos and complications against a backdrop of truly terrifying economic forecasts. Let’s start with [...]
Budget 2026: summary and reaction to key tax changes
Chancellor John Healey billed his first Budget as giving families and businesses “breathing space” from rising costs. But when you peek beyond the headlines, there are some significant changes in the detail, especially for business owners, landlords and savers. That said, the Autumn Budget announcements weren’t as bruising as they could have been. Here, I
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