Author: David Pike

David Pike is an experienced news journalist with over 20 years experience as a UK News editor for WTX News and other news publications.

Budget 2023: Raising lifetime pension allowance won’t get people back into work, says leading economist The i says The Chancellor’s plans to raise the lifetime allowance on pensions will not be “massively effective” in tempting over-50s back to work, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said. In an interview with i, Paul Johnson said that the tax-free limit on pensions savings was a “pretty small part of the picture” when it…

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Budget 2023: Jeremy Hunt to create 12 new low-tax ‘investment zones’ across UK The Independent says Jeremy Hunt is set to announce a dozen new low-tax “investment zones” across Britain at this week’s Budget in a bid to boost growth and help “level up” areas outside of London. The chancellor is expected to reveal 12 zones clustered around universities – radically scaling back a scheme introduced by the former prime minister Liz Truss which saw…

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