UK paid employment falls by almost 650,000 as Covid-19 crisis bites

ONS says number of workers on payroll fell 2.2% from March although rate of decline fell in June

Treasury mulls plan to set up coronavirus toxic debt body to save UK small businesses

City calls for state-owned recovery corporation to handle £35bn of unsustainable government-backed debt

29% of UK businesses to cut jobs in next three months, survey says

British Chambers of Commerce reports big firms more likely to cut jobs than smaller businesses

Margrethe Vestager was 100% correct over public mood on Apple tax case

Court defeat for Brussels is reminder of glacial pace at which international tax reform proceeds

Capital gains tax review: your questions answered

All you need to know about CGT and the possible outcomes of the chancellor’s surprise review

UK energy efficiency push offers just a third of the investment needed, says report

IPPR says 12m homes will need to be refitted to meet net-zero targets but £3bn earmarked is not nearly enough

Rishi Sunak’s capital gains tax review may usher in higher taxes on wealthy

Chancellor’s directive to focus on how people escape CGT ‘feels like starting pistol for a tax grab’, says analyst

The Guardian view on Covid-19 economics: the austerity con of deficit hysteria

A new book is a much-needed piece of heretical questioning for politicians who argue that something needs to be done about the size of the public debt

Weak recovery could make unemployment worse than 1980s levels, warns OBR

Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts UK’s biggest peacetime deficit in 300 years

Treasury forecaster’s three stark predictions for Britain’s economy

Worst-case scenario warns output may not rise to pre-pandemic levels until 2024

UK’s growth figures dim hopes of V-shaped recovery from Covid-19

There was nothing inevitable about a weak bounce back – the UK government has delayed the recovery by its dithering

If the Tories have ‘economic credibility’, what on earth does it mean?

They’ve run the country into the ground and found magic money trees when it suits. Yet they’re still ahead of Labour on trust, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Britain’s economy returns to growth more slowly than expected

GDP for May at 1.8% disappoints analysts expecting a bigger boost after lockdown

Sunak’s Covid-19 package may not be value for money, warns Treasury economist

Incoming head of OBR says lack of forecasting means emergency measures’ success will be hard to gauge

Sunak cannot just hope other big firms will follow Primark’s furlough stance

Declining job retention bonus was honourable and underlined £9.4bn scheme’s shockingly poor design