HMRC backflips on helpline closure announcements
HMRC has backflipped on this week's announcement that long periods of shutdown for self-assessment and VAT helplines,...
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Rishi Sunak will reveal plans to subsidise workers’ wages to prevent hundreds of thousands of layoffs on Friday as the Treasury comes under pressure to match the new Bank of England measures to limit the economic fall out from Covid-19.
Amid warnings from the TUC that time is running out to save jobs from being axed, the chancellor is understood to be working on the final details of the scheme, including how many workers should be covered, how long it should last for and how it should be delivered.
Read more at the Guardian.