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The government will scrutinise the use of legal loopholes that help people avoid inheritance tax (IHT), Chancellor George Osborne has said.

The lifetime pension saving allowance has been cut from £1.25m to £1m in the Budget today.

Lower inflation, driven by a fall in oil prices, has helped the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) upgrade UK growth forecasts for 2015 and 2016 and given the government room to move on near-term borrowing.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has warned ongoing sterling strength could prompt a prolonged period of lower inflation expectations.

The UK employment rate in the three months to January hit a record high of 73.3%, according to latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The Chancellor George Osborne has announced in today's Budget he plans to scrap the annual tax return, replacing it with a single ‘digital' tax account.

A Bank of England official has said asset managers, insurers and clearing houses in UK should be subject to the same stress tests faced by banks.

Following our live coverage, Investment Week provides analysis and comment on Chancellor George Osborne's 2015 Budget.

The number of stocks in the FTSE All Share yielding more than 10-year UK government debt reached a record high this year, but managers have still been able to find relative value in fixed income.

Fidelity has proposed an overhaul of conventional methods of comparing tracker funds' performance, saying simply looking at tracking errors can produce 'illusory' results.