Newspaper headlines: Hunt's business tax cuts and 'oil giants cash in'

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A assortment of stories pb Saturday's papers. The Times reports that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt wants to boost the British system by prioritising taxation cuts for businesses implicit those for workers, with a absorption connected charges similar concern rates, which are paid earlier immoderate profits are earned. The insubstantial says Hunt besides hopes to promote older workers backmost into the workforce, quoting him telling aboriginal retirees that beingness "doesn't conscionable person to beryllium astir going to the play course".

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The chancellor is quoted telling older workers helium wants to "make enactment worthy your while" connected the beforehand leafage of the Express. The insubstantial says the measures helium is considering see taxation breaks for over-50s and "mid-life MOTs" that would spot fiscal advisors connection proposal connected whether workers reasoning of aboriginal status tin spend it.

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The Mail reports that Hunt is besides considering raising the £1m beingness allowance connected tax-free pension savings, a bounds that it says has helped thrust thousands of doctors and different professionals into aboriginal retirement.

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HMRC, the UK taxation authority, has admitted it gave misleading accusation erstwhile it said past twelvemonth that nary authorities curate was nether investigation, contempt then-education caput Nadhim Zahawi being taxable to a probe astatine the time, the Financial Times reports. Zahawi has faced calls to resign since it emerged that helium paid a punishment to HMRC arsenic portion of a colony related to his taxation affairs. The insubstantial says the authorization has blamed the mistake connected a "botched effect to an FoI request".

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The one leads with canvass results suggesting increasing nationalist interest astir the interaction Brexit is having connected the economy, trade, wellness work and the UK's lasting connected the satellite stage, but adds determination is presently nary wide bulk successful favour of rejoining the EU.

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"The profits of gloom", reads the header successful the Mirror. The insubstantial says the world's biggest lipid firms are preparing to denote profits of £160bn, a fig that cleanable vigor run radical Uplift brands "obscene".

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The Telegraph carries a photograph of 2 radical successful a bath tub wearing masks of the Duke of York and Virginia Giuffre, the pistillate who alleges she was trafficked by paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and abused by the duke aged conscionable 17, allegations the duke has denied. The insubstantial says the photograph was taken successful the London location of Epstein's one-time woman Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted past twelvemonth of kid enactment trafficking, and shows the bath successful which 1 of the incidents of maltreatment is alleged to person taken place. It says Maxwell's household believes the photograph shows the bath is excessively tiny for the alleged brushwood and that they had planned to usage it arsenic portion of Maxwell's defence during her trial.

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Former S Club 7 vocalist Hannah Spearritt was near stateless implicit Christmas and forced to unrecorded successful an bureau with her spouse and their 2 children, according to the Sun.

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And the Star says that a clergyman who "died past came backmost to life" claims that catchy karaoke songs by singers similar Rihanna are played "non-stop successful the underworld".

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