Rachel Reeves will seek to make around £3 billion of cuts to welfare over the next four years by restricting access to sickness benefits, it is understood.The Chancellor is expected to commit to the previous Tory government’s plans to save the sum by reforming work capability rules,

Labour could force landlords to pay National Insurance on their rental income or even make them pay council tax as part of sweeping reforms, experts warn. The Chancellor will reportedly spare property investors from her capital gains tax raid at this month’s Budget after Telegraph Money campaigned for Labour to end its war on landlords.

With the Autumn Budget less than two weeks away, speculation about which taxes Chancellor Rachel Reeves will opt to raise has reached fever pitch. On entering No 11 Downing Street, Reeves commissioned the Treasury to conduct a thorough spending audit,

Rachel Reeves is aiming to raise £40 billion in tax rises and spending cuts in the Budget, it has emerged. The chancellor hopes that filling Treasury coffers with the huge sum will avoid a return to the austerity of the Tory years.

Rachel Reeves has sparked a rush on gold as wealthy households race to save their money from a tax raid at this month’s Budget. The Royal Mint reported sales of gold coins, which are exempt from capital gains tax,

UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has identified a £40bn funding gap ahead of her Budget in two weeks — far more than previously expected — as she prepares big tax rises to patch up the NHS. The figure represents the funding that Reeves needs to protect key government departments from real-terms spending cuts,

British finance minister Rachel Reeves is eyeing tax rises and spending cuts to a value of around 40 billion pounds ($52 billion), two government sources said, after she was quoted as saying there was a "big gap" to be filled in the budget.

As the FT’s chancellor game shows, the new ‘golden rule’ is her binding constraint. Meeting it could bolster fiscal credibility

Rachel Reeves should increase capital gains tax (CGT) at Labour’s upcoming Budget, a group of millionaire business owners have urged, estimating the measure would raise £14bn a year. In a report by the IPPR think-tank,

Filling the £22bn financial "black hole" would only be enough “to keep public services" still, she told a meeting.