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UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, the government's senior minister for economic and fiscal policy under the Labour government.
Jamie Dimon has said he could reconsider JPMorgan's Canary Wharf tower if the UK turns hostile to banks, an investment projected to add up to £10bn. The £10bn is a six-year estimate of local impact; the tower itself is put at £3bn.
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John Healey is poised to raise bank taxes in his 28 October budget, the Guardian understands, with one option worth upwards of £2bn a year. The proceeds would help cover higher borrowing costs from the Middle East war, and the banks have already warned in writing that they could move staff and business abroad.
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John Healey did not confirm any Budget measures to retail bosses, while the BRC says their taxes rose 20 per cent in two years. Both trade bodies called the talks positive, and that is the only support on the record for a plan that assumes a cut.
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Chancellor John Healey may need an extra £25bn in 2029-30 to hold departmental budgets against war-driven inflation, by the IFS's estimate. He is not obliged to set spending totals in his 28 October Budget, so the choice between cuts and tax rises could wait until next year.
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City minister Lucy Rigby says London's listing reforms are "not a job done", citing the £5.3bn Airtel Money IPO as a sign of "renewed momentum". For boards choosing a venue, the Treasury is signalling more reform but has not yet named a measure they could price.
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Number 10 has privately assured aviation executives it still backs Heathrow's third runway, three industry figures told City AM. For firms with money riding on the runway, the vote on its policy framework is still the firmer signal.
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Shein's UK revenue rose to £2.58bn last year on a staff of 113, newly filed accounts show. Britain's duty exemption for low-value parcels, the basis of that model, stays in place until 2028 even as the US and EU close theirs.
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UK 30-year gilt yields hit their highest level since 1998 this week as a global bond sell-off deepened. Economists cited by the Guardian think about half of the £24bn fiscal buffer has already gone before John Healey's first budget on 28 October.
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Skills minister Jacqui Smith says the £25bn employer tax rise is not the main driver of youth unemployment, now at 16.4%. Her offer to employers is £2,000 per young apprentice at small firms, with the payroll tax on 21- to 24-year-olds left as it is.
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TaxWatch found David Reuben, said to have quit the UK over a possible wealth tax, has been tax resident in Monaco since at least 2014. Aggregate figures still show wealth leaving, so budget planning should rest on those numbers and on filed records.
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David Reuben, worth nearly £28bn with his brother Simon, has left the UK for Monaco. By one count, billionaires worth £121bn have left or loosened UK ties since 2024, though for UK firms the open question is whether their capital follows them.
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Car lenders including Volkswagen's finance arm say in court filings that the FCA won't share the data and code behind its £9.1bn redress scheme. Consumer Voice is attacking the same calibration from the other side, demanding the FCA's Treasury correspondence.
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Bosses of Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and three other lenders make their tax case to John Healey on Tuesday, just over four weeks before his first Budget. Signals from his Treasury leave lenders that wanted the 3% surcharge phased out defending against a rise.
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Ministers are weighing a new select committee, an audit body and even recall for England's mayors as more income tax revenue heads their way. For combined authorities, the scrutiny attached to that money now matters as much as the size of the tax share.
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The Cambridge company says routing agentic work across Nvidia, AMD and Google chips doubles accuracy at a quarter of the cost. No customer has confirmed those numbers.
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