George Osborne

Chancellor George Osborne has given HM Revenue and Customs extra powers to tackle advisers promoting aggressive tax avoidance schemes.

Further changes to the tax relief available on pensions - as has been predicted ahead of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement this week - may destroy public faith in saving for retirement, according to financial services consultants Punter Southall.

Up to two million people are to have their credit files secretly checked under a crackdown on tax evasion to be unveiled by George Osborne to help raise another £10 billion.

As Chancellor George Osborne prepares to deliver his Autumn Statement on Wednesday, we look at some of the main measures he may announce.

Financial planning firm Henwood Court has written an open letter to Chancellor George Osborne calling on him to abandon auto-enrolment for firms with fewer than 50 employees.

Business secretary Vince Cable is likely to succeed in pushing a mansion tax though parliament in the Autumn Statement, tax specialist Baker Tilly has said.

Sir Mervyn King, the Bank of England's Governor, told the Chancellor that £37bn cash the Treasury claimed from the QE programme will not help the UK's finances.

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: Do you agree with the DWP figures that 70% of those being auto-enrolled will remain in a pension scheme?

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