Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has revealed a package of measures to boost business investment and cut business taxation.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is to cut Employees’ National Insurance by two percentage points from 6 January, a move that will save employees hundreds of pounds a year.

Pensions could become more like a bank account into which different employers have to pay, under a shake-up expected in the Autumn Statement.

Inheritance tax receipts hit £4.6bn from April to October, new government figures published this morning have revealed.