Taxes will increase by £40bn - and the lion's share will come from a £25bn rise in employers' national insurance contributions, the chancellor announced in the budget. Rachel Reeves said the ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered Labour's first budget for 14 years on Wednesday afternoon, promising to grow the economy and fix its foundations. Ms Reeves, the UK's first female Chancellor ...

Chicago Public Schools could receive about $300 million to help fill its budget deficit after Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday proposed a record tax increment financing surplus for a second ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Commons “this Budget raises taxes by £40 billion”. Britain's first female chancellor is currently setting out the government's economic agenda on Tuesday ...

The chancellor held the red box outside Number 11 before she ... to raise taxes on “working people” in the days before the Budget announcement. Their pre-election manifesto promised not ...

The modern equivalent of the bag is the red despatch box or Budget box." In the 2010 Autumn Statement, George Osbourne carried the old fragile Budget briefcase for the last time before it was put ...

The Budget statement has historically been brought to the Commons in a leather bag, which has since been replaced by the red box. The same wooden box, covered with scarlet leather and lined with ...

The word budget derives from the old French word "Bougette," which means little bag. Over the years, the leather bag in question was replaced by a box, which was used by chancellors for 100 ...

Norman Lamont is said to have smuggled a bottle of whisky in the early 1990s, with his aide William Hague carrying his speech in a plastic bag. And there are two theories on why the Budget box is ...

Rachel Reeves has committed to ending the previous government’s income tax thresholds - but not until 2028. In the meantime, that means thresholds remain frozen, with the personal allowance set ...

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