Treasury's property tax take is slated to rise to £22.1billion by 2029, after Jeremy Hunt decided not to offer home movers a stamp duty cut in today's Budget. Hunt was said to have been considering a stamp duty cut in the Budget as a way of boosting the housing market, which has been hit by higher mortgage rates. To mitigate this negative effect, the Treasury could have opted to reduce the rate of stamp duty land tax or scrap the home-buying levy altogether.

Jeremy Hunt's rejected industry calls for more incentives to private EV buyers in the form 'fair taxes' making it hard for car makers to hit the Government's ZEV. The most recent new car registration figures show EV sales are growing among fleets and businesses, but sales to private buyers have plateaued.

Savers can beat the top easy-access deal as well as short and longer-term fixed-rate deals by opening an account with savings platform Raisin. It is once again offering new customers a sign up bonus - but this time, exclusively to our readers.

Close to nine in ten adults in the UK go to Amazon for their online shopping, buying everything from balloons to bicycles, screws to sofas. But, although millions default to using it out of convenience and the expectation it offers bargains, it does not always have the best prices, a Money Mail investigation has found.

The first sign of trouble came at lunchtime on the Thursday just 22 hours before our train was due to depart St Pancras International in London for Gare du Nord in Paris. An email from Eurostar informed us our return journey on Sunday had been cancelled 'due to a train manager strike in France' and we would be issued a refund for this leg of the trip - some £438. What to do? With excitement levels at fever pitch, we went online and through Opodo booked flights from Paris to Heathrow with British Airways to ensure we were back in time for school and work on Monday morning. The cost? £1,014. Ouch. The running total for travel alone was now £1,890 and we hadn't even left home.

I live in a leasehold pre-fab building that was built just after the war. Our freeholder has started work on the building - including to the roof and windows - and says this will cost an estimated £48,000 per leaseholder. However, my lease states I am only liable for repairs. Should I pay?

Bosses promise an 'electrified go-kart' experience with the flexibility of the largest and most spacious Mini on the market. But does the new Countryman Electric live up to the hype? We drove one in the sunnier climes of Portugal to find out if it's the better option instead of the racy John Cooper Works petrol we drove earlier...

The market for British bonds, or gilts, used to fund government borrowing is one of the least understood parts of the nation's financial architecture. A harsh temporary light was shone on gilts during Liz Truss's short sojourn on Downing Street when her tax cutting caused market interest rates to surge and sent a shock cascading through UK pension funds.

Greggs chief exe Roisin Currie (pictured) said around 25,000 of its 32,000 staff will be rewarded in their March pay packets after 'another year of rapid growth'. The High Street baker usually dishes out 10% of its annual profits to employees who have worked there for at least six months. This year's £17.6m bonus pot represents slightly more - handing those eligible an average of £704 each.

The price of gold reached a record high as hopes mount for a US rate cut this summer, following weaker-than-expected economic data published last week. The price of the precious metal surged to $2,110 (£1,661.73) an ounce in the spot market, before falling back to $2,108, after steady increases over the past few weeks. We look at what's behind the recent surge in the price of gold and how investors can get exposure to it.

I was thinking of taking £50,000 out of the flat I own to put down as a deposit towards a 100,000 house I would buy. This would leave me with a mortgage of say £50,000. Plus the £50,000 borrowed on a buy-to-let mortgage I would be taking out on my flat. But the mortgage rates I have been offered are very high. Should I wait for rates to fall or for when I am able to buy with cash?

I estimate this has cost me thousands of pounds without any contact from my adviser. I contacted the pension provider and they are going to get back to me. Should I contact the Ombudsman as this seems like theft and should I be able to seek compensation as without the fees my pension pot would be considerably higher.

I bank with Nationwide and have a current account and an Isa. I live full time in Cyprus, but Nationwide has blocked me from transferring funds to my Isa as I do not have an address in the UK. Why am I not able to move these funds that have not left the UK?

Clara, 70, from Cheshire, admits she was initially sceptical when Shawn messaged her out of the blue on TikTok requesting to follow her, but once they started chatting via text, they couldn't stop - and began been messaging several times a day. The only thing preventing them meeting in person was that Shawn, a 55-year-old Sergeant Major in the US army, was posted in Israel and would not return from his tour of duty until May, she says.

A tax-cutting Spring Budget was trailed just a couple of weeks ago, as the Chancellor prepared for a General Election. Yet, now it seems unlikely from the noises being made that we will get a spectacular blowout. And maybe that's not even what we need. Instead, I'd argue it would be better for Mr Hunt to lay out a radical but coherent plan to fix the illogical mess our tax system has got into.

Homes across the country have been fitted with photovoltaic cells, and there is little sign that uptake will stop. In fact, solar panel installations have hit a seven-year high , with 161,494 panels installed on homes in 2023, increasing 44.6 per cent from the year before.

Fiat had said originally that it would offer only the electric 600e in the UK, but said that in light of sluggish EV sales it had been forced to revise its plans and introduce also a 600 Hybrid. Executives from the Italian car firm say that it is time for a reality check and a wake-up call for ministers to do more to boost demand for EVs.

Rob Dix, co-founder of Property Hub and co-host of The Property Podcast and an experienced buy-to-let landlord having started investing almost 20 years ago. Although he was a homeowner in the past, he has been renting for the past 10 years. People tell him he's throwing money away and paying someone else's mortgage, but Dix argues that his family have the flexibility to move when they want - and never have to do DIY.

My wife and I got married last summer and went on our honeymoon to the west coast of America. We started in July and had a three week itinerary, visiting multiple cities and finishing in Hawaii. We were set to travel from Los Angeles to Honolulu on 11 August. But the day before, we woke up in LA to news of the wildfires on Hawaii's Maui island. A state of emergency was announced, so we had to cancel that leg of the holiday last-minute and find a new hotel in LA for the five days until our flight back home. We were shocked that our insurance claim was rejected by Southdown - not once, but four times. Surely this is the definition of an obstruction to our trip that was out of our control?

Retiring with a million-pound pension pot and the luxury lifestyle it affords may sound like the stuff of dreams. But it could be in closer reach than you think. It's unlikely to happen by accident, however. Use these top tips - and invest a good bit of time - and a retirement of frequent holidays, treating loved ones and enjoying the finer things could just be attainable. Ian Dunsire retired almost 20 years ago. He says it's all thanks to his £1 million Self Invested Personal Pension.

Anyone taking out a mortgage at the moment will likely be pondering the same questions - how long to fix for? Should they fix at all? It is a decision that could save them - or cost them - thousands of pounds, depending on whether they choose correctly. We asked a dozen mortgage brokers what they would personally do right now if they were either remortgaging or buying a property.

Choosing the right DIY platform is crucial but a wealth of choice and a variety of charges can leave investors scratching their heads. We pick some of the best. We pick some of the best. We also highlight why investing in an Isa makes sense, as it should protect your hopefully growing investments from tax forever.