Tackling trump’s tariffs

All chancellors are adept at giving with one hand and taking with another. Rachel Reeves is no exception. In last week’s Budget, she handed small businesses in England a seemingly attractive cut in th

Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed

The long run-up to the Budget gave rise to fevered and increasingly alarmist speculation about its contents. This descended into chaos as frantic lobbying by interested parties, dire warnings by exper

Issue of the week: a Budget for business? ...

The UK government’s new pay-per-mile tax on electric cars will also apply to plug-in hybrid cars, chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in her long-awaited Autumn Budget. The new charge is set to cost an

The Budget: the main points The Chancellor majored on ...