Budget

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget has failed to excite the print and packaging industry, with leaders labelling it “underwhelming” and “unexciting”, despite several concessions that may make life...

In the first Budget to take place on a Monday since 1962, Philip Hammond made moves to commit the government to greater spending on health – £20.5bn more for the NHS over the next five years and at...

Print sector figures have signalled hopes that the government is on course to make greater efforts on industrial productivity following Philip Hammond’s Autumn Budget.

Northamptonshire County Council’s approval of a stringent cuts proposal to save £70m has proven cause for concern among local print businesses.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has pledged to look at ways to combat the late payment culture impacting SMEs as part of his Spring Statement.

In his Autumn Budget statement delivered yesterday (22 November), Philip Hammond announced the abolishment of the so-called ‘Staircase tax’, along with a reduction in the period of business rates...

Chancellor Philip Hammond has delivered his first – and last – Spring Budget, and with it a raft of measures that could impact printers, particularly SMEs.

The head of the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has called for the compensation being provided to some paper mills to offset climate change costs embedded in energy bills to be extended to all...

Chancellor George Osborne announced a number of business tax reforms in a Budget speech yesterday (16 March) that was largely welcomed by the print industry.

A consultation on the government’s proposal to charge a levy on large companies that neglect to take on enough apprentices opened today.

Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to introduce a national ‘living wage’ in his Emergency Budget speech earlier today (8 July).