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• ‘Digital services tax’ targets big US tech groups

  29-10-2018 23:43 via ft.com
  Facebook and Amazon among companies facing unilateral action from UK
  
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• UK follows in Trump’s footsteps on digital tax

  29-10-2018 23:32 via ft.com
  The US president’s offshore overhaul spurs other countries to action
  
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• UK tax burden set to rise to 30-year high

  29-10-2018 22:57 via ft.com
  Tax as a share of GDP will increase as chancellor increases NHS funding
  
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• Budget 2018: The chancellor’s speech

  29-10-2018 22:39 via ft.com
  Edited extracts of Philip Hammond’s address to the House of Commons
  
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• Subdued OBR forecasts temper UK ‘back on feet’ boast

  29-10-2018 21:39 via ft.com
  Independent body cuts 2018 growth outlook after slowdown since March
  
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• Budget 2018: key points and summary

  29-10-2018 21:32 via ft.com
  An end to austerity, goodbye to PFI and Help to Buy — but questions over NHS and tech tax
  
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• Hammond hands his fiscal gift right back

  29-10-2018 21:24 via ft.com
  This Budget is the largest discretionary fiscal loosening since the OBR’s creation in 2010
  
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• Hammond delivers largest giveaway Budget since 2010

  29-10-2018 21:13 via ft.com
  Chancellor says era of austerity ‘coming to end’ — but issues Brexit warning
  
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• Entrepreneurs’ tax relief rules tightened

  29-10-2018 21:13 via ft.com
  Chancellor vows to crack down on abuses
  
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• Tax avoidance moves to raise £2bn over five years

  29-10-2018 21:03 via ft.com
  VAT on uncompleted sales, routing deals overseas and insolvencies to be targeted
  
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• Wine in the UK will bear higher duty, but not beer or spirits

  29-10-2018 21:02 via ft.com
  Government also to look at allowing outdoor weddings
  
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• Halloween Hammond offers money with menaces

  29-10-2018 20:59 via ft.com
  In hinting at horrors of a no-deal Brexit, chancellor was speaking as much to colleagues as the country
  
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• Hammond grants business the main item on its wish list

  29-10-2018 20:56 via ft.com
  UK chancellor provides rescue package following months of high-street pain
  
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• Fiscal Phil’s Budget routine may leave joke on Brexiters

  29-10-2018 20:48 via ft.com
  Chancellor plays adult among political children by staying serious on austerity
  
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• Hammond throws the dice to secure a soft Brexit

  29-10-2018 20:45 via ft.com
  The UK chancellor opts for an Augustinian stance: let me be virtuous but not quite yet
  
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• Offshore gambling sector faces UK tax rise

  29-10-2018 20:39 via ft.com
  Remote gaming duty up from 15% to 21% to fill hole left by betting terminals reform
  
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• Austerity 'coming to an end' but do the numbers add up?

  29-10-2018 20:39 via ft.com
  The FT's Martin Sandbu dissects Philip Hammond's Budget address
  
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• Armed forces to receive extra £1bn over next 2 years

  29-10-2018 20:39 via ft.com
  Cash injection aimed at boosting nuclear deterrent and countering cyber threat
  
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• More cash for universal credit but it is ‘here to stay’

  29-10-2018 20:37 via ft.com
  Scheme handed £1bn in new funds over five years but full roll-out pushed back 9 months
  
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• Death knell sounded for PFI contracts

  29-10-2018 20:36 via ft.com
  Use of contentious deals has slowed dramatically and criticism has grown
  
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• Budget 2018: the FT's economics editor briefs the newsroom

  29-10-2018 20:36 via ft.com
  Chris Giles breaks down the chancellor's big measures
  
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• Hammond applies the no-deal Brexit frighteners

  29-10-2018 20:28 via ft.com
  Outside the EU, UK prosperity depends on global opportunities and fiscal restraint
  
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• Jaunty Hammond deeply serious in his Brexit message

  29-10-2018 20:23 via ft.com
  In a holding-pattern Budget, chancellor makes clear that extra money depends on EU deal
  
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• Freelancers face higher tax in Treasury crack down

  29-10-2018 20:18 via ft.com
  Attempt to stop ‘disguised employment’ in private sector to take effect in 2020
  
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• Tax boost for millions from April

  29-10-2018 20:17 via ft.com
  Personal income allowances to rise a year early, chancellor pledges
  
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• Budget 2018: Tiny sums as Spreadsheet Phil prepares the airbags for Brexit

  29-10-2018 18:33
  
  British economic policy shrivels up as it braces for what's about to hit it.
  
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• New study shows Brexit is drenched in fake news

  29-10-2018 12:21
  
  Public are wrong on most elements of immigration - but political class lacks the bravery to be straight with people
  
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• Why obscure derivatives rules could cost us all

  29-10-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  An EU-US dispute over financial regulation could determine the price of hedging risk
  
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• Australia’s banks begin relocating functions from London 

  29-10-2018 05:48 via ft.com
  CBA chooses Amsterdam for post-Brexit EU hub while others eye Frankfurt and Dublin
  
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• UK has ‘rolled over’ only 14 out of 236 EU treaties

  29-10-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Failure to replicate agreements heightens fears of disruptive no-deal Brexit
  
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• Rulebook for spies ‘unfit for purpose’, say MPs

  29-10-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  All-party group calls for new guidance that prohibits involvement in torture
  
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• May tries to fix turbulent relationship with business

  29-10-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Prime minister is busy wooing companies after initially giving them short shrift
  
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• Budget 2018: May’s vexed relations with business

  29-10-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  The prime minister is busy wooing companies after initially giving them short shrift
  
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• Cartoon, October 29

  29-10-2018 03:00 via ft.com
  Philip Hammond’s near-Halloween budget: will he give us a trick or a treat?
  
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• Trivia guide

  29-10-2018 01:29 via bbc.co.uk
  While we wait for Philip Hammond's big moment, here are some lesser-known facts.
  
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