Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The allowance has remained the same since 2010-11. The standard inheritance tax rate is 40% of anything in your estate over the £325,000 threshold. For example, if you leave behind an estate worth ...

National Insurance is worked out in a similar way to income tax and is calculated on gross earnings (before tax or pension deductions) or profits (earnings minus allowable expenses) above a threshold.

The beleaguered Social Development Commission has lost another board member. Barbara Toles, the SDC’s board chair, resigned during its biweekly board meeting Wednesday night. SDC spokesperson ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A six-year freeze on personal tax thresholds has been a big factor holding back growth in the UK economy, a ...

Labour’s planned freeze to income tax thresholds would leave lower earners worse off than an outright tax rise, new analysis suggests. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been accused of breaking the ...

With legislation on increasing the company size thresholds set to be laid before Parliament by the end of 2024, Steve Collings looks at the potential impact.

The row centres on income tax thresholds, which have been frozen since 2021. While they remain fixed, inflation on wages pushes more workers into paying higher rates of the levy. The freeze had ...

The health secretary has warned of "difficult and big choices" coming in the budget, as he refused to rule out that the chancellor will freeze tax thresholds. Wes Streeting told Sky News' Sunday ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Recent changes in the income eligibility thresholds to qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits may allow more Americans to receive federal ...

Extending a freeze on income tax thresholds in the budget would not break Labour's election manifesto, government sources have suggested. The current freeze in thresholds, brought in by the ...

And it quotes the Institute for Fiscal Studies saying that freezing the thresholds is a "less transparent and more uncertain" way to raise revenue. "Labour plots a tax raid on your holidays" is ...