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  • Friday newspaper round-up: Income tax, Ineos, Virgin Atlantic
    14 Nov, 2025 07:24
    (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves is set to abandon a plan to raise income tax in her budget with the chancellor reportedly "ripping up" the main measures in the wake of turmoil in the party. A source told the Guardian that plans to break the manifesto ple

  • Thursday newspaper round-up: Stamp duty, pensions, Tate galleries, Flutter
    13 Nov, 2025 07:28
    (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves has been urged to abolish the "sin tax" of stamp duty in the budget by property experts including TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp, as the chancellor faced calls to replace it with an annual property tax. Allsopp, presenter of

  • Wednesday newspaper round-up: Heathrow, InstaDeep, LNG
    12 Nov, 2025 07:19
    (Sharecast News) - Renewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade, according to the world's energy watchdog, making the transition away from fossil fuels "inevitable", despite a green backlash in the US and parts of Europe. Th

  • Tuesday newspaper round-up: Gambling tax, Warren Buffett, Legal & General
    11 Nov, 2025 07:22
    (Sharecast News) - The Gambling Commission has demanded a UK bookmaker hand over a trove of financial documents after the company accidentally disclosed information suggesting it may be running an illegal offshore betting operation. The Guardian understan

  • Monday newspaper round-up: Drax, Royal Mail, Ovo Energy
    10 Nov, 2025 07:22
    (Sharecast News) - Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada's oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say. A new report suggests it is "highly likely" that Britain

  • Friday newspaper round-up: Pension funds, OpenAI, Goodwin Procter
    07 Nov, 2025 07:11
    (Sharecast News) - More than 250 British company bosses have urged Rachel Reeves to use her budget to make UK pension schemes channel extra funds into domestic businesses, increasing private investment by as much as £95bn. In a letter to the chancellor,

  • Thursday newspaper round-up: Fired Earth, Nick Candy, Nvidia boss
    06 Nov, 2025 07:23
    (Sharecast News) - The firm linked to the former Conservative peer Michelle Mone that was found last month to have supplied unusable personal protective equipment during the pandemic owes £39m in unpaid taxes, according to company documents. PPE Medpro,

  • Wednesday newspaper round-up: Worklessness crisis, telecoms companies, fuel duty
    05 Nov, 2025 07:21
    (Sharecast News) - Employers have been told in a landmark government review that fixing Britain's health-related worklessness crisis will require them to spend £6bn a year on support for their staff. In a major report before this month's budget, Charlie

  • Tuesday newspaper round-up: Ofwat, Budget, law firms
    04 Nov, 2025 07:21
    (Sharecast News) - More than $70tn (£53tn) of inherited wealth will pass down the generations across the world over the next decade, widening inequality and highlighting the need for intervention by the G20 group of leading nations, a group of economists

  • Monday newspaper round-up: Tax rises, US billionaires, national debt
    03 Nov, 2025 07:20
    (Sharecast News) - The prospect of looming tax rises and a fall in business investment will restrict the UK's economic growth rate next year to less than 1%, according to a health check of the economy by a leading consultancy. With less than four weeks be

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