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EV drivers to face new pay-per-mile tax from 2028, Reeves confirms in Budget

EV drivers to face new pay-per-mile tax from 2028, Reev...

Rachel Reeves has confirmed a new 3p-per-mile tax on EVs from 2028, prompting c...

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£4.7bn ‘salary sacrifice raid’ could see pension benefit scrapped by thousands of employers, experts warn

£4.7bn ‘salary sacrifice raid’ could see pension benefi...

Experts say Reeves’ £4.7bn salary sacrifice cap will make pension schemes far l...

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Budget 2025: Key announcements at a glance

Budget 2025: Key announcements at a glance

Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Budget freezes tax thresholds, raises dividend and savings ...

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Reeves unveils £30bn tax rise as Budget leaves millions worse off and middle earners hit hardest

Reeves unveils £30bn tax rise as Budget leaves millions...

Rachel Reeves’ £30bn tax rises will leave most Britons worse off, with middle e...

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Budget’s new VAT relief set to boost business donations and cut landfill waste

Budget’s new VAT relief set to boost business donations...

A 2026 VAT reform will remove tax charges on donated goods, encouraging busines...

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UK launches Critical Minerals Strategy to reduce import reliance and power next-generation industries

UK launches Critical Minerals Strategy to reduce import...

The UK has launched a new Critical Minerals Strategy to cut import dependence, ...

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From today, women in the EU symbolically work for free as gender pay gap persists

From today, women in the EU symbolically work for free ...

Women in the EU symbolically “work for free” from 17 November as the 12% gender...

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Lakshmi Mittal, one of Britain’s richest men, leaves UK amid tax overhaul

Lakshmi Mittal, one of Britain’s richest men, leaves UK...

Steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal has left the UK for Switzerland and Dubai afte...

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Dorset’s Baboo Gelato launches £300k crowdfunding drive to fuel nationwide expansion

Dorset’s Baboo Gelato launches £300k crowdfunding drive...

Dorset’s award-winning Baboo Gelato has launched a £300k Crowdcube campaign to ...

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Immigrants are powering UK’s fastest-growing start-ups, new analysis shows

Immigrants are powering UK’s fastest-growing start-ups,...

A new study shows 54% of the UK’s fastest-growing start-ups were founded by imm...

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Make UK signs new partnership with Canadian manufacturers to boost trade and technology collaboration

Make UK signs new partnership with Canadian manufacture...

Make UK has signed a major partnership with Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters ...

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Pibit.AI raises $7m Series A to bring trusted AI underwriting to the insurance sector

Pibit.AI raises $7m Series A to bring trusted AI underw...

Pibit.AI has raised $7m to scale its CURE™ AI underwriting platform, aiming to ...

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Barclays accused of shutting entrepreneur’s bank account over her OnlyFans work

Barclays accused of shutting entrepreneur’s bank accoun...

Tech founder Madelaine Thomas says Barclays shut her bank account and refused a...

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Tories demand answers from OBR over Reeves’s income tax backtrack

Tories demand answers from OBR over Reeves’s income tax...

The Conservatives have accused Rachel Reeves of undermining the Budget process ...

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Six in ten founders say Labour is ‘anti-business’, new survey finds

Six in ten founders say Labour is ‘anti-business’, new ...

Nearly two-thirds of fast-growth business founders believe the Labour governmen...

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Twitter hacker ordered to repay £4.1m in Bitcoin after celebrity account scam

Twitter hacker ordered to repay £4.1m in Bitcoin after ...

Joseph James O’Connor, jailed in the US for hacking celebrity Twitter accounts,...