All VAT articles
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NewsUK ‘sleepwalking’ towards retrofit crisis, says Ridge report
Firms want VAT removed from refurbishments
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NewsGovernment rules out VAT reduction on domestic work
Financial secretary says move would cost Treasury £6bn a year
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NewsGovernment delays reverse charge VAT plan again
Initiative put back five months until March next year – but trade groups want even longer postponement
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NewsIndustry asks chancellor for another delay to reverse charge VAT plan
Trade bodies want Rishi Sunak to postpone introduction of scheme again
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NewsWorried tier 1s were drawing up plans to bail out suppliers before HMRC agreed to VAT delay
Trade bodies call for policy to be scrapped just days after government climbdown
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NewsFake housebuilders jailed for a total of 10 years for VAT fraud
Trio used money to live lavish lifestyles
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CommentInflation: a reason to be cheerful or a cause for concern?
What’s driving the 3.2% inflation rate and does it matter for construction?
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CommentConstruction will not come out unscathed from Osborne's Budget, but it could've been worse
Construction hasn’t done as badly as some had feared as additional capital spending cuts are put in hold
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Latest construction forecasts suggest there is more to fear than hope for
The latest round of forecasting by construction experts paints a picture little changed from three months ago with little hope of significant growth, much uncertainty and the risks to growth heavily weighted on the down side.The general pattern they expect can be seen from the graph (right).It shows that after ...
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Reasons to be careful – December’s higher than expected inflation
Consumer Price Inflation at 2.9% in December and up from 1.9% a month earlier... mmm... that’s not what the experts expected. Not by a long way.This morning’s story from Reuters published ahead of the inflation figures had its poll of experts plumping for inflation at 2.6%.No doubt there will be ...
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Are expectations of inflation too low?
Inflation is now on the way up. That was to be expected. As Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, keeps reminding us, we should expect inflation to be very volatile for some while.But, is it me or do the forecasts for inflation reaching a mini-peak at about 3% ...
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Is this deflation I see before me? Why prices are rising faster than the inflation rate
I am not sure about you, but I sometimes have to go to the back numbers to make sense of the statistics that get thrown at me.I have been for some months a bit curious as to why the brightest brains (well some seriously well paid experts) among the UK ...