Labour’s tax minister has refused to say if or when the government would respond to a consultation on making the business environment easier for entrepreneurs. After almost a year…
James Murray, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General, was present a fringe event hosted by the Chartered Institute of Taxation and CenTax (authors of the Farm Tax among other things). He was asked when the government would be responding to a consultation it launched at the last Budget…
The consultation, titled “Tax Support for Entrepreneurs,” opened on 26 November 2025 and closed on 28 February 2026. Since then – crickets…
He said:
“It will be published in due course, please know I have been talking to the team about all the responses to that so that can definitely be fed into the work we’re doing, the thoughts we’re having.”
Murray also remarked that the government would be more aggressively pursuing those who it claims are not satisfactorily self-employed and should therefore move inside IR35 rules to pay more tax: “it’s definitely something that is on my radar.” It never stops…
Bookmark this from Andy Burnham:
2029: “that’s when the next election will be.”
May 2027: “Absolutely not.”
“No election any time soon.”
“All of this speculation on an early election, I can knock that dead.”