Chancellor Philip Hammond’s November Budget statement was never going to be a barnstorming collection of radical tax changes or seismic policy shifts. While the UK economy continues to grow, the 1.4% projected by the Office for Budget responsibility for this year is well below the long-term average of more than 2.0%, a situation that allowed…
Barring any unforeseen political mishap, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond will present his latest Autumn Statement to the Commons on November 22, 2017. With the party conference season behind him and the Brexit negotiations in full swing he will have the task of summing up the state of the economy and laying out plans…
As this year’s general election campaigning has illustrated, taxation is a subject that seldom strays far from the centre of national political debate. On the surface at least, the traditional wrangling between left and right continues to revolve around the headline levels at which corporate and personal taxes are paid, and the degree to…
