Spring Budget 2020: Reactions
What the key industry groups have to say about the Chancellor’s Budget speech.
Spring Budget 2020: Expectations
Three changes in the Chancellor’s pipeline.
1.6 million face retirement with no private pension
Government statistics reveal shortfall.
Other announcements – plastic packaging tax
Plastic packaging tax
A new plastic packaging tax will take effect from 1 April 2022 at a rate of £200 per tonne.
This will apply to plastic packaging produced in, or imported into, the UK that does not contain at least 30% recycled plastic.
The …
VAT – construction industry reverse charge reminder
Abolition of the ‘tampon tax’
The first headline for VAT in the Chancellor’s speech came when Sunak announced that the UK leaving the EU presents an opportunity to introduce legislation applying the zero-rate of VAT to women’s sanitary products.
VAT is…