Budget 2021: Sunak cuts Business Rates, but major house-builders face 4% cladding tax

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Chancellor Sunak has promised to cut taxes, not raise them in the coming years. But the country's biggest house-builders will have profits taxed 4% to help pay for the cladding scandal.

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