Budget, tobacco dominate as Congress braces for busy stretch
flavours, display and availability. The government isplanning such restrictionsas part of the forthcoming tobacco and vapes Bill. This will create a broad and welcome package of measures, assuming it goes ahead.
Britain, on March 6, 2024. The United Kingdom's (UK) Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt on Wednesday announced in his spring budget that National Insurance contributions would be cut for 27 million British workers. (Xinhua)
A sign outside a NatWest Group Plc bank branch in the City of London, UK, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Natwest is due to report first-half results on Friday, July 28. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jeremy Hunt says...
Stephen Russell, founder of Copper Rivet Distillery and spokesperson for the UK Spirits Alliance said the freeze was “good news” but that spirits “continue to be the highest taxed alcohol category in the UK”. He said: “We have the highest spirits duty rate among G7 nations, despite bei...
However, to ensure vaping remains a cheaper alternative to smoking, there will also be a one-off increase in tobacco duty, with the two measures expected to raise £500m by 2028/2029, according to The Times which first reported on the story. ...
Despite continuing global instability, the OBR report today that inflation in the UK will fall from 10.7% in the final quarter of last year to 2.9% by the end of 2023. That is more than halving inflation. High inflation is the root cause of the strikes we have seen in recent months. ...
If then, this tax subsidy is to incentivise investment into asset locked bodies who by their very governance are not for private gain, then all trading activity (excluding those that are unethical e.g., tobacco, arms, gambling etc) should be eligible. We want investment to support sustainable...
John Atkinson|Dec 29, 2023| When I reviewed the Concept 50 loudspeaker from the UK's Q Acoustics inAugust 2022, I concluded that the Concept 50 lowers the sweet price spot for affordable tower speakers to $3000/pair. Now I have another pair of Q Acoustics loudspeakers in the house for ...
There will also be a one-off tobacco duty rise to keep the incentive to choose refillable vaping over smoking. Reeves described this as a move to "discourage non-smokers and young people from taking up vaping". Capital Gains Tax Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is a tax on any profit you make...