Business news
Online sales fall by 11.2% in year to October 2021
Early Christmas shoppers fail to materialise.MTD extension to cost taxpayers £1.5bn
4.2 million businesses and landlords affected.HMRC collects £27.9bn less tax
Tax revenues fall by 4.4% to £608.8bn.Bank of England resists pressure to raise interest rates
Interest rates maintained at 0.1%.37% of businesses report higher prices
Prices increase faster than usual in October 2021.New ‘cladding tax’ to start in 2022/23
Revenues to support removal of unsafe cladding.3 in 5 pension schemes fail to consider climate change
Investors are at risk of lower returns.Shipping firms that fly red ensign flag to get tax breaks
Other reforms to simplify the tax regime.Business rates relief for hospitality, retail and leisure in 2022/23
50% discount available, up to maximum of £110,000.Sunak extends recovery loan scheme
Applications will be available until June 2022.
In the 11th and 12th centuries half a million pilgrims a year travelled on foot from all over Europe to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. In September 1992 Patrick Shanahan retraced their steps, recording his 500 mile journey in a series of photographs, some of which are reproduced on this website.