The UK Treasury is exploring options for an online sales tax in response to an explosion in internet shopping, as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates the closure of high street shops across the country. Officials said the Treasury was weighing changes to “shift the balance” between spending online and in physical shops, amid concerns in government…
A year ago shares in struggling US video game store GameStop were worth just $3.25 a pop, yet at the end of last month they had reached $482. This stupendous surge was created by thousands of armchair traders, organising themselves on internet forums such as Reddit, who were attempting to outwit hedge funds who had…
This is the year of the “great British summer” – whether we like it or not. Anyone longing for a foreign getaway had their hopes dashed by health secretary, Matt Hancock, who has booked his break in Cornwall and has pointed towards holidays at home for all, while cautioning against trips abroad. But a UK…
The phone call was not unexpected, but by the time it ended, Ellen Norton’s* plans to get married and buy her first home were dashed. Norton had responded to an email purporting to be from the courier firm DPD, which informed her she had missed an attempted delivery and would have to pay a small…
The travel booking website Lastminute.com has broken the promise it made to the regulator to repay all outstanding refunds to holidaymakers, a Which? investigation has revealed. After months of breaking the law on cancelled holiday refunds, the online travel agent was investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in December. By then, its customers…
If spending more time at home has made you consider a furniture update, do not sling out that Billy bookcase just yet. Instead of taking it to the tip, you may be able to raise some cash through Ikea’s new buyback service. The scheme, which it announced last autumn, allows customers to take their furniture…
