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Currys boss says price rises ‘inevitable’ due to Budget cost increases

Alex Baldock also warned that policies announced by the Chancellor in October will ‘depress investment and hiring’ plans.

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2024

Food prices set to rise almost 5% next year in new cost of living squeeze

Supermarket prices will have shot up by 40% from 2020 to 2025 warns industry body in major threat to living standards

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2024

Currys warns of "inevitable" price rises after £32 million Budget hit

Chief executive criticises “new and unwelcome headwinds from UK government policy.”

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2024

Kate Forbes: Labour National Insurance hike will dent economic growth

LABOUR have failed "a question of basic competence" by bringing in a hike to employers' National Insurance contributions…

The National (Scotland) · Nov 26, 2024

OPINION - QR codes in restaurants are the heralds of automation — we should ban them

There is a generational divide when it comes to QR codes and I am on the far side of it. But there’s going to be more, many more of them around, according to this paper’s genius business editor, Jonathan Prynn. It’s all about the increase in employers’ National Insurance in…

Evening Standard · Nov 25, 2024

UK Government 'to give Scotland £300 million' for Budget tax hike compensation

THE UK Government has said it will give the Scottish Government an additional £300 million to cover the planned increase to employers’ National…

The National (Scotland) · Nov 25, 2024

The £5bn-a-year tax timebomb that’s set to devastate London hospitality

A survey of 400 business owners across all sectors found that almost 60 per cent have put hiring plans on hold as a result of the National Insurance rise

Evening Standard · Nov 25, 2024

B&Q owner Kingfisher warns of £31 million hit from National Insurance changes next year

Blow revealed as CBI boss says NI reforms will hit profits, investment and growth

Evening Standard · Nov 25, 2024

‘Charity tax’ rise will hurt antisemitism fight, Rachel Reeves warned in latest Budget pushback

Labour chancellor told surprise rise in employers national insurance contributions will hit fight against antisemitism, after anti-Jewish hate incidents reached a record high in the first half of this year

The Independent UK · Nov 24, 2024

Universities ask for Scottish Government for more money amid UK tax hikes

UNIVERSITY bosses have asked the Scottish Government for more money following the UK Government’s National Insurance hike ...

The National (Scotland) · Nov 21, 2024