Spring Statement
BUDGET 2023: North's business bodies left largely underwhelmed by Spring Statement
BUSINESS bodies in the north were left with relatively little to cheer from Wednesday’s Spring Statement.
BUDGET 2023: Chancellor's Spring Statement puts squeeze on Stormont's spending power
PUBLIC finances and households around the north will come under even more pressure from next month in the wake of the latest Budget and the DUP’s boycott of Stormont.
BUDGET 2023: Energy discount scheme extended, but households in north face sharp rise in electricity tariffs next month
A SCHEME to reduce the price of electricity and gas for households will continue until the end of June, but consumers in the north still face a sharp rise in electricity costs next month.
Budget: Last chance for Jeremy Hunt to soften the impact of corporation tax hike
WEDNESDAY’S Budget will be the last chance for UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to soften the impact from next month’s corporation tax hike, a Belfast accountant has said.
Angela McGowan: Business confidence can’t be sustained on promises of ‘jam tomorrow’
TIMES are tough for many of Northern Ireland’s businesses right now.
Andrew Webb: Muddled Spring Statement hasn’t provided relief many hoped for
PONDER this. People are leaving potatoes on the shelves in food banks because they can’t afford the cost of the energy to cook them.
Was Chancellor's statement a spring forward?
QUESTION: I own a family business that trades through a limited company.
ANALYSIS: Rishi's tinkering just won't cut it for hard-pressed families
STRIP away the rhetoric, and Chancellor Rishi Sunak's spring statement will have done nothing to consign huge swathes of Northern Ireland families from a further downward spiral into poverty.
Stark headlines but little substance in Spring Statement
THE Chancellor of the Exchequer's Spring Statement was delivered to the backdrop of a deepening cost of living crisis.
Richard Ramsey: What was in (and more importantly left out) of Spring Statement
THE Spring Statement was initially supposed to be little more than an update on economic and fiscal forecasts.