Capital gains tax (CGT) will rise to 28% for higher earners from midnight tonight, but the rate for basic rate income tax payers will stay the same.

CGT, VAT, public pensions... Prime Minister David Cameron has already warned today's emergency Budget will likely contain some of the harshest measures since World War II.

George Osborne will announce a bank tax on Tuesday aiming to raise £3bn amid criticism the levy could hit UK competitivenesss.

More than 17,000 vicars, teachers and doctors have signed a petition urging Chancellor George Osborne to scrap plans to increase capital gains tax (CGT).

UK manufacturing performance took an unexpected knock in April according to official data, adding to fears Britain's economic recovery is much weaker than previously thought.

The Government would have to double the scale of the cuts it has already planned to come anywhere near to Canada's example of a public sector bonfire, experts have said.

Warren Buffett has put himself on the eBay auction block, offering his words of wisdom over lunch to the highest bidder.

Prudential's top executives are in the firing line at the company's AGM today as they face down shareholders angry over the insurer's failed bid for Asian insurer AIA.

The FSA has levied its largest ever fine of £33.32m on J.P. Morgan Securities for client money breaches over a seven-year period.

BP could have to slash dividend payments both this year and in 2011, warns Hargreaves Lansdown.