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Boris Johnson Hints at Future Tax Cuts for U.K. Business
Prime Minister Boris Johnson hinted at future tax cuts for U.K. business even as his finance minister prepares to make historic rises over the next two years. “You can take it that Rishi Sunak, as indeed am I, is a staunch, low-tax Conservative, and he believes in an enterprise economy,” Johnson said Monday in a television interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait. The evidence for now is to the contrary. Johnson’s Conservative government is set to raise the tax burden as a portion of national income to 35%, which the Institute for Fiscal Studies says will be the highest sustained level since ... (full story)