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  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    UK public finances
    UK government borrowing halves as economy rebounds from lockdowns

    Economists say strong tax receipts give the chancellor more scope to address cost of living crisis

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Which prepaid card should I get for my brother’s carers?

    I need one to help pay for his day-to-day personal expenses

  • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
    Martin Wolf
    The future of the UK economy is uncertain

    But Rishi Sunak’s fiscal illusions are not the right response to a series of external shocks

  • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
    Chris Giles
    Rishi Sunak’s decisions have raised the spectre of an ‘inflation tax’

    The effects of rising prices will make the chancellor’s claims to be cutting levies ring hollow

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Electric vehicles’ success is a headache for the Treasury

    The UK government should begin to explore what replacements to fuel duty would look like

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Camilla Cavendish
    Where Britons wanted reassurance, Sunak has delivered cynicism

    This government has not thought about the fairest way to share the pain as a cost of living crisis looms

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    No winners in Rishi Sunak’s fiscal drag race

    Higher inflation and frozen income tax thresholds undermine attempts to cut tax

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Tax
    Spring Statement: what’s in it for investors and householders?

    The economy is expected to grow, but the hit to our pockets will be as big as in the worst recessions

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Merryn Somerset Webb
    Alas poor Rishi, in charge of fixing the unfixable

    Most of our underlying problems are well beyond the reach of the chancellor

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Helen Thomas
    Why the government’s bid to boost business investment could fail

    Chancellor’s Spring Statement made no mention of the once-trumpeted Plan for Growth — and that is part of the problem

  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    News in-depthRishi Sunak
    Government needs to ‘do more’ on cost of living crisis, says Johnson

    Shine comes off UK chancellor Rishi Sunak after his Spring Statement gets a poor reception

  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    News in-depthSpring Statement
    Rishi Sunak’s tax-cutting claims challenged by UK think-tanks

    Institute for Fiscal Studies and Resolution Foundation say majority of workers will see their taxes rise

  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    Spring Statement
    Chancellor’s tax savings offset by changes to student loan repayments

    Economists warn that Spring Statement benefits older generations at expense of younger graduates

  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    Laura Suter
    Spring Statement: Sunak misses an opportunity to help households out of a hole

    The cost of living crisis requires more drastic action than the chancellor delivered on Wednesday

  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    Sunak hints at more UK energy bills relief in the autumn

    UK chancellor responds to criticism that he failed to provide enough help to ease the cost of living crisis

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    Spring Statement
    Sunak banks public finances windfall for pre-election tax cut

    UK chancellor cuts fuel duty and raises national insurance threshold but ignores calls for tax on energy companies

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    News in-depthSpring Statement
    Chancellor provides minimal help to households on cost of living crisis

    Sunak focuses on banking tax revenues ready for giveaways in run-up to next election

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    Spring Statement
    Sunak’s cost of living measures fail to impress in Leicester

    Soaring prices are already driving many into poverty, say charities and social workers

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    Helen Thomas
    Sunak serves up weak sauce for business

    Companies, like households, got negligible support for near-term pressures and few answers on longer-term priorities

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    Spring Statement
    England’s hospitals and schools warn of cuts after Sunak snub

    Refusal to provide extra funding will lead to real term decrease of more than 10% to budgets

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    UK Inequality
    Britain’s poorest left to bear brunt of squeeze on cost of living

    Chancellor focuses support towards working families and middle- and high-income earners

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    Spring Statement
    Taxpayers face additional £500mn bill for Bulb Energy bailout

    Office for Budget Responsibility estimates support will now total £2.2bn

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    Martin Wolf
    Sunak fails to address the hit to living standards

    It is hard to see a good justification for the chancellor’s decision to leave the most vulnerable worse off

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A very political Spring Statement

    Chancellor pleases his own party but does little to help the poorest

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    LexSpring Statement
    Sunak seeks tax system overhaul to boost business investment Premium content

    Chancellor’s smorgasbord of ideas should have laid out principles that are likely to survive companies’ investment cycles

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