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Chancellor George Osborne set to cut small firms' taxes in Autumn statement

Treasury sources said the Chancellor will have to ‘make a decision’ on what to do about business rate relief as it is due to expire next year.




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Autumn Statement 2013: New Isa limits announced for next year

Experts had claimed that the lifetime limit could be capped at £100,000 – a figure that seasoned savers may have already reached - but that has not transpired.




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Autumn Statement 2013: Chancellor aiming to halt tax avoidance as he launches £9bn crackdown on schemes that scrimp the Treasury

George Osborne described the crackdown as the 'largest package of measures to tackle tax avoidance, tax evasion, fraud and error so far this parliament'.




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Autumn Statement 2013: George Osborne to plead for more time to fix nation's finances despite stronger economic growth

The Chancellor unveiled a raft of upbeat data pointing to the recovery gaining momentum, with record numbers in work, borrowing falling and house prices forecast to soar by 5.2 per cent next year.




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AUTUMN STATEMENT: Government to clamp down on firms hiring 'disguised' staff to avoid paying national insurance

Many employers are hiring staff on contracts where they are classed as self employed, even if they are full-time employees.




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Autumn Statement 2013: Is the Chancellor planning another raid on pension savers?

With this year's statement imminent, pension experts are pleading for a grace period for an industry that has undergone wide-ranging regulatory changes in recent years.




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What cards are left up your sleeve, George? Households hoping for 'surprise' announcements in Wednesday's Autumn Statement 

Households up and down the country are hoping Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will come up with a couple of ‘surprise’ announcements.




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Autumn Statement 2014: Will the Chancellor surprise us with a cut to inheritance tax or stamp duty?

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has very little room for manouevre in today's Autumn Statement.




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AUTUMN STATEMENT 2014: Pension income from spouse's annuity tax-free if they died before 75

Annuities which come with death benefits can be passed to loved ones tax-free if you die aged under 75, the Chancellor announced in the Autumn statement.




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AUTUMN STATEMENT 2014 AT A GLANCE: Key points of George Osborne's speech

Income tax free personal allowance to rise to £10,600 rather than the planned £10,500 next year. Higher rate income tax threshold to rise to £42,385 next year.




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Nick Clegg 'snubs' crunch Autumn Statement for photo-call in Penzance

The Deputy Prime Minister spurned the chance to hear the Chancellor's statement in person and instead headed to Cornwall to announce funding for coastal defences.




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Measures in Autumn Statement to improve small firms' access to finance are 'drop in ocean', it has been claimed

Geoff Parkes, teaching fellow at Aston Business School in Birmingham, said: ‘Thus far, the scheme has accounted for less than two per cent of all lending to small firms.’




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Freelance staffing 'catastrophe' fears over workers forced onto payroll

IPSE, a body that represents the self-employed, believes the Chancellor could limit contracts to just a month for freelancers, after which they would be forced on to the client’s payroll.




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Osborne's bid to balance books in crisis as experts predict he will be a forced to borrow an extra £30bn over the next five years

The Chancellor has pledged to eliminate the record deficit racked up by Labour during the financial crisis and return the country to the black by the end of the decade.




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George Osborne's £6billion a year increase for the NHS

Chancellor George Osborne will use tomorrow’s spending review to announce that the Health Service will receive an extra £6billion straight away – rising to £10billion a year by 2020.




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Autumn Statement 2015 predictions on what George Osborne will announce

Today George Osborne will reveal details of his Autumn Statement. We round-up what to expect, including his tax credit headache and the predicted pension changes.




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Working families spared tax credits cut, as Chancellor performs U-turn

Changes sparked a backlash as they were forecast by the Insitute of Fiscal Studies to take £1,000 a year off 3 million families. They have now been halted altogether.




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UK Sport to receive 29 per cent funding increase in Autumn Statement shock in boost for Olympic and Paralympic stars

UK Sport has been handed a shock 29 per cent increase in funding, handing a boost to British athletes preparing for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo four years later.




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Energy bills to fall by £30 a year as Osborne cuts funding for energy efficiency improvements

George Osborne says household energy bills will fall by an average of £30 by 2017 as a result of reducing green levies, as outlined in his Autumn Statement this afternoon.




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Hundreds to be added to council tax bills to pay for elderly care, George Osborne announced

Draconian rises signalled by the Chancellor will see the average bill for a Band D household rise up to £320 by 2020/21. George Osborne urged town halls to impose increase to fund social care shortfalls.




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Part-time and post-graduate students get a boost from the Chancellor as he extends student loans and help with living costs

Part-time students have been handed some good news in today's Autumn Statement with access to maintenance loans to help with living costs during their studies from 2017/18.




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George Osborne's Autumn Statement sees UK cuts to increase Foreign Aid

He has repeatedly slashed domestic spending, but the Chancellor remains committed to funnelling 0.7 per cent of Britain's GDP into an array of dubious overseas aid projects.




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Millions to see higher insurance bills as Government hikes insurance tax in Autumn Statement

Insurers have slammed the rise which has pushed the tax up to almost double what it was in 2015 and they predict it will lead to an increase in the number of uninsured drivers on the road.




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Labour MPs busy with their PHONES as Shadow Chancellor rails at Autumn Statement

As John McDonnell stood up for his big moment to respond to the Chancellor's spending plans, Labour's MPs were much more interested in their mobile phones than his rambling speech.




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Philip Hammond promises low and middle earners they WILL get income tax cuts

The Chancellor reaffirmed the Conservative manifesto commitments to lift the personal allowance to £12,500 and the 40p tax threshold to £50,000 by accelerating progress to meeting the goals.




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Phillip Hammond gets the thumbs up on first day as Chancellor

Philip Hammond fulfilled his promise to be an un-showy chancellor today as his biggest 'rabbit' turned out to be a joke about his own abolition.




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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: So much for George Osborne’s emergency post-Brexit Budget 

Until yesterday, Chancellor Philip Hammond was among the most dismal of doom-mongers. But as he delivered his Autumn Statement, he seemed transformed.




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QUENTIN LETTS watches Chancellor Philip Hammond's first Autumn Statement

As Hammond speeches go, the Autumn Statement was short and reasonably un-glum. He kept it to 45 minutes. By his own morose standards he was almost skittishly optimistic in places.




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Philip Hammond announces billions to tackle 'shocking' productivity gap

Philip Hammond said Britain’s ‘productivity gap’ was ‘well known, but shocking nonetheless’. He told the House of Commons that the UK ‘lags behind’ the US and Germany by 30 per cent.




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Triple lock on state pension could be axed after the Chancellor orders a review into how much the guarantee costs 

Philip Hammond told MPs he would be compiling a major report into the impact that state spending on pensioners has on the health and social care of an ageing population.




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Philip Hammond's decision to increase Insurance Premium Tax marks spiteful attack on prudence

It was not the kind of Autumn Statement we had come to expect under George Osborne – all fire and brimstone – but Philip Hammond’s debut was not without its nasty side.




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Chancellor's VAT changes will tie small businesses up in unnecessary knots

The Flat Rate Scheme for VAT, designed to cut bills and red tape for small firms, is being overhauled in a measure the Chancellor said would stem abuse of the scheme.




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New rules in Autumn Statement means workers could lose out on a fifth of redundancy

Currently, employees do not have to pay income tax or national insurance if their redundancy pay is under £30,000.




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How odd the licence fee mess is one story about cuts the BBC ISN'T obsessed about

DOMINIC LAWSON: BBC Newsnight also cited the Depression of the 1930s as the nearest thing to modern Britain under the Conservatives.




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Stoke City set to sign former Manchester United midfielder Nick Powell from Wigan 

Stoke City are finalising the transfer of Wigan Athletic's Nick Powell and are interested in Everton's versatile 24-year old defender Matthew Pennington.




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Barcelona interested in Manchester City kid Kian Breckin

Barcelona are showing an interest in Manchester City teenage prospect Kian Breckin. The 15-year-old attacking midfielder has caught the eye of the Spanish club's scouts in tournaments.




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Antonio Valencia snapped up by Ecuadorian side Liga Deportiva Universitaria from Manchester United

The Ecuadorian outfit confirmed the 32-year-old's arrival on Friday afternoon by posting a video of Valencia getting used to his new surroundings.




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Crystal Palace take down cringeworthy 'Friends Reunited' video to announce signing of James McCarthy

Crystal Palace tweeted a cringeworthy video to announce the £8million signing of James McCarthy from Everton. The clip shows James McArthur outside an internet cafe.




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Transfer news: Manchester United keeper Joel Pereira joins Hearts on season-long loan deal

Hearts have secured the signing of Manchester United keeper Joel Pereira on a season-long loan deal.It will be the 23-year-old's fifth temporary spell away from old Trafford.




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Derby captain Richard Keogh pictured on crutches for the first time since horror crash

Derby County captain Richard Keogh (left) has been pictured on crutches for the first time since being involved in a horror car crash that could have ended his career.




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Blackburn 0-0 Wigan: Points shared in Lancashire Derby as lowly Wigan hold on for draw

IAN WHITTELL AT EWOOD PARK: Wigan Athletic climbed off the foot of the Championship table on Monday night after playing out a goalless draw with Lancashire rivals Blackburn Rovers.




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FA Cup third round LIVE: Wolves host Manchester United among the 5.31pm kick-offs

A bumper set of FA Cup fixtures continues on Saturday evening with five 5.31pm kick-offs taking place. Follow all the action across the five matches HERE via Sportsmail's SAM MCEVOY.




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Leicester 2-0 Wigan: Foxes advance to FA Cup fourth round in routine win for Brendan Rodgers' men

TOM COLLOMOSSE AT THE KING POWER: Leicester City have cruised into the FA Cup fourth round with a win over Wigan thanks to Tom Pearce's OG and a Harvey Barnes deflected strike.




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Manchester United full back George Tanner joins Salford City on loan

The 20-year old has been recalled from a loan spell at Morecambe and was wanted by Championship strugglers Wigan Athletic before the ambitious Salford City swooped in.




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Former Manchester United midfielder Darron Gibson signs for Class of '92's Salford City

The 32-year-old has been training with Salford this season after being released by Wigan Athletic last year. The midfielder was once viewed as a long-term replacement for Paul Scholes at United.




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'My €200 cost me £245!': Last-minute cash machine currency sting

In a rush to obtain holiday money before taking a flight to Corsica, travel journalist Sarah Hartley took out €200 from a Moneycorp machine. A debit card receipt showed she'd been charged £245.




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Airlines 'could be sued' if they cancel returns without telling passengers

We revealed how some airlines use a 'no-show' clause to cancel return flights if passengers fail to board their outbound leg. Airlines claim this prevents passengers from 'gaming' ticketing rules.




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Exotic destinations see flight price falls this summer including Antigua and Brazil

Flight prices for Antigua and Brazil have seen some of the largest falls this summer, a new report has revealed - while Kiev has also seen a fall, and a boom in interest, thanks to 'dark tourism.'




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Revealed: The inconvenient truth about airport meet and greet parking

Research by The Mail on Sunday found that Airparks Drop and Go at Birmingham is a 14-minute drive from the airport, with buses only coming every 25 minutes.




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Spain and Croatia top the list as the best value all-inclusive destinations for 2020

All inclusive holidays are becoming increasingly popular with a 28 per cent increase of families searching for the packages this year compared to last year, new data has revealed.