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Rachel Reeves listens to Keir Starmer on the Labour general election campaign trail in May (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Budget 2024: when it is and what could be in it - as PM warns of pain

Heat pumps are pricey - but there’s some big savings to be had and they can pay off in the long run

I priced up a heat pump to replace my groaning gas boiler

Belfast-based Harbinson Mulholland has appointed Colm McMullan as a new partner

New partner appointed at Northern Ireland independent chartered accountancy firm

View from the Chair with FSB NI’s policy chair, Alan Lowry

View: It’s important to find the box and put a cross in it for business

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris is set to address the Conservative manifesto launch event in Belfast on Saturday

Conservatives to emphasise benefits of Union at NI manifesto launch

UK motorists are being charged the highest diesel prices in Europe - but thankfully diesel in Northern Ireland remains much cheaper than in Great Britain.Photo: Lynne Cameron/PA Wire

UK has highest diesel prices in Europe - but not NI

Fears have been expressed that a proposed legislative change could increase taxi fares in Northern Ireland and put firms out of business

Active taxi driver numbers in Northern Ireland drop to 5,719 amid VAT fears

Letters to editor

Letter: The government should only provide finance to IFA to host Euros matches

Kevin Myers is an English-born Irish journalist and writer. He is known for his controversial views on a number of topics.

Letter: Good to see you support cancelled voices like Kevin Myers

Former taoiseach John Bruton died earlier this month, aged 76. The main reason Bruton has been praised was because of his decency and honesty, writes Michael Clarke

Letter: John ​Bruton's death reminds us of the decline in standard of politics

Morning View

Editorial: The huge costs to the public of Casement stadium are not justified

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris delivers his address during the Conservative Party annual conference at Manchester Central. Mr Heaton-Harris said that business "truly recognises" the opportunities that exist due to the Windsor Framework

Windsor Framework is a major improvement on NI Protocol, says Heaton-Harris

A green/red lane system for the movement of goods and "not for EU" labels are among key measures of the Windsor Framework coming into effect for Northern Ireland on Sunday

‘Not for EU’ labels introduced alongside new red and green lanes for NI goods

Chris Heaton-Harris says he believes that restoration of Stormont is right for Northern Ireland and right for the future of the Union. In coming weeks there is a chance to move forward

Heaton-Harris: We will see how Windsor works in practice and listen to concerns

Morning View

Editorial: Grammar school system lets NI sidestep VAT private school row

Friends drinking

Wetherspoons dropping food and drink prices this month

Wetherspoons pubs are cutting the prices of all food and drinks for one day this week in a bid to highlight the tax burden on the hospitality industry.

By Anna Wise, PA Business Reporter

How much wine, beer & spirits will cost after government tax increase

Increase in alcohol duty 'will cripple hospitality' claims industry body. Photo: PA

Increase in alcohol duty 'will cripple hospitality' claims industry body

Mr Sunak described the overhaul as “the most radical simplification of alcohol duties for over 140 years”, enabled by Britain’s exit from the EU

Alcohol duty increase set to come into force labelled as 'a hammer blow'

Superdrug to cut cost of sun cream with items available from just £2.79

Superdrug to cut cost of suncream with items available from just £2.79

Willie Jack at the Duke of York bar in Belfast

Hospitality crisis in NI as overheads rise by more than 80% in one year

Restaurateurs are warning that some eateries across Northern Ireland are on the verge of closure due to spiralling costs, taxation and staffing challenges. Pictured is Michelin star chef Michael Deane who believes ‘no-one in authority really seems to care about the sector’

Northern Ireland eateries being ‘taxed out of existence’ - warning

Colin Neill, chief executive, Hospitality Ulster

Warning from hospitality sector about the impact of rising cost of food

Passionate Restaurateur, Rachel Molloy from Donaghmore, has fulfilled a lifelong dream by launching her successful local eatery, No.47, in Cookstown thanks to help from the Go For It programme in association with Mid Ulster District Council. Pictured are Rachel Molloy, owner of No.47 and chair of Mid Ulster District Council, councillor Córa Corry

Restaurateur cooks up a storm with launch of successful Cookstown eatery

TUV leader Jim Allister said that to restore Stormont 'is to enforce the Union-dismantling Protocol'

UUP 'fundamentally wrong' in their response to Windsor Framework, insists TUV

Stevie Higginson would like to see VAT cuts in the budget

Budget: NI restaurant owner in VAT plea to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

Letters to editor

Letter: 'Loadsamoney' Windsor deal, as if unionist opposition just about trade

A letter from Ryan Dallas:

Letters

Lord David Frost, Minister of State at the Cabinet Office, speaks during the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Picture date: Monday October 4, 2021.

Ex-negotiator Lord Frost says UK/EU deal keeps Protocol intact

Morning View

Editorial: Deal brings welcome changes to protocol, but EU law is still dominant

Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen

Windsor Framework: What is in the new deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol?

Roger Pollen - head of FSB NI

All eyes on DUP reaction to protocol deal but business leaders remain cautious

Mars Wrigley factory fined after two people fell into vat of chocolate

Here’s where to get the best deals for National Pizza Day.

Five places to get cheap pizza on National Pizza Day

Oil tank

Drop in price of home heating oil in Northern Ireland over last two weeks

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt admits tax rises are coming and “sacrifices” will be necessary.

Jeremy Hunt expected to announce increase to National Living Wage

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt admits tax rises are coming and “sacrifices” will be necessary.

Jeremy Hunt admits tax rises are coming in Autumn Statement

Mini-budget: NI politicians presented with chance to seize powers

Chief executive of Hospitality Ulster, Colin Neill hits out at mini budget

Mini-budget 'only tinkers around the edges of the support’

Chancellor urged to slash VAT on public EV charging

Chief executive, Hospitality Ulster, Colin Neill

Urgent call for clarity on support as list of NI business closures grows

Public EV charging hits £1 per kWh as Osprey hikes prices by 50%

Conor Murphy (centre) meeting traders at The Space Market Square, Dungannon, County Tyrone

PM ‘must help business sector’

Finance Minister Conor Murphy has called on the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss to deliver a package of meaningful measures which deliver for businesses. Pictured are Finance Minster, Conor Murphy with traders at The Space Market Square, Dungannon

New package is needed 'to support our businesses and protect the jobs'

DUP MP Sammy Wilson has set out a range of options for the new Prime Minister, to be announced today

Sammy Wilson urges new PM to cut taxes to tackle cost-of-living

Liz Truss during a hustings event

Truss 5% VAT cut plan ‘incredibly regressive’

The action plan says that businesses are suffering from higher costs and a reduction in business from the public

Thousands of hospitality and retail businesses ‘could go under’

Chief executive, Hospitality Ulster, Colin Neill

Trade groups outline action plan on cost of doing business crisis

Tina McKenzie, FSB policy and advocacy chair

FSB outlines rates relief proposal to protect NI’s small businesses

Rishi Sunak looks at a NLAW anti tank launcher, supplied to Ukraine, during a campaign visit to Thales Defence System plant in Belfast yesterday. He says the protocol did not allow him to extend an energy-saving VAT cut to NI

‘It is simply not right to suck the NI economy out of orbit of rest of UK’

(Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Campaigners demand 25p fuel duty cut to ease cost of living crisis

Greggs set to extend opening hours and delivery services - but prices could rise

Greggs, which has around 20 stores in Northern Ireland saw sales jump in the first half of the year as customers turned to value meals amid the cost-of-living squeeze, but warned its cost inflation could hit 9%

Greggs sales jump as cash-strapped customers turn to cheaper meals

Rishi Sunak resigned as Chancellor, writing on Twitter: "I recognise this may be my last ministerial job, but I believe these standards are worth fighting for and that is why I am resigning."

Henry McDonald: The exit of Mr Johnson could box the DUP into a corner

DUP MP Sammy Wilson arrives at the DUP headquarters in Belfast for a meeting of the party officers. Party leader Edwin Poots is facing questions about his leadership future after a significant majority of the party's elected representatives opposed his decision to reconstitute the powersharing Executive with Sinn Fein. Picture date: Thursday June 17, 2021.

Protocol Bill means any VAT cut to tackle fuel bills would apply in NI, says MP

Unionism has done the right thing by refusing to take part in a power sharing executive at Stormont

The main problem with the Northern Ireland Protocol is constitutional, not trade