Main effects of the Spring Budget
Reduction to the Dividend Allowance The £5,000 annual dividend allowance introduced last year will be reduced to £2,000 from April 2018, which will hit small... Read More
The Budget
Philip Hammond's first Budget in March 2017, with no big changes impacting the 2017/18 tax year expected...... he says he doesn't do rabbits and hats
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The March 2017 Budget
hilip Hammond delivered his first Budget, the first of two in 2017. Set against a backdrop of a stabilising economy, but still needing to cut costs, the opposition in disarray and challenging and potentially expensive Brexit negotiations looming large on the horizon.
Budget 2017: Tax squeeze to continue
The Government has in recent years increased the amount of tax raised by targeting certain sectors. Landlords have been particularly hit in recent years with... Read More
Budget 2017: Levelling the tax playing field
The Chancellor announced the introduction of measures from April 2018 to tackle the discrepancy between the tax and NIC paid by individuals who are employed,... Read More
2016 Budget and Autumn Statement
2016 was a tumultuous year, with the BREXIT vote in June, rapidly followed by a new Prime Minister and then new Chancellor Philip Hammond’s 2016 Autumn Statement
More news on Digital Tax Accounts, the new dividend tax, changes in tax relief on pension contributions, further spending cut backs...... what does The Chancellor have in store for us on 16 March....
BUDGET 2016 and working towards becoming an academy
In last week’s budget the Government reiterated its aim that every English state school be released from local council control and turned into an academy... Read More
BUDGET 2016 – Brian Jukes’ review – all you need to know!
Goodness me – that was some performance! With economic gloom threatening on the horizon and UK growth rates being downgraded, the Chancellor managed to pull... Read More
BUDGET 2016 – Salary Sacrifice, still highly effective
Salary sacrifice arrangements enable employees to give up salary in return for benefits-in-kind that are often subject to more favourable tax treatment than salary. The... Read More
BUDGET 2016 – Changes to Capital Gains Tax Rates
A surprise announcement in the Budget was the reduction in capital gains tax rates. This measure reduces the 18% rate of CGT to 10% and... Read More
BUDGET 2016 – Changes to the Tax threshold announced
The Chancellor had previously announced his intention to increase personal allowances and the basic rate tax band. The purpose of this is to increase the... Read More
Pension Tax Relief – George changes his mind…..
After 6 months of leaks and warnings, The Chancellor has woken up to the idea that discouraging pensions saving by removing the tax incentives was... Read More
The new dividend tax from April 2016 – How will it impact you?
Back in July 2015 in the post election Budget the Chancellor announced a huge change to the way dividends will be taxed. Having an £8k... Read More
How will you cope with the National Living Wage?
High on the Chancellor’s agenda: to transform our high tax, high welfare and low wage economy, to a low welfare, low tax and high wage... Read More
Dafferns review of the Summer 2015 Budget
2015 was year of two Budgets, the first in March before the Election and the second in June from the new Conservative Government
Budget Summer 2015 – The new dividend tax surprise
On one level, this was perhaps the biggest surprise in the Budget and yet, on another level, we should probably be surprised that something like... Read More
Budget Summer 2015 – Brian Jukes’ Budget Musings
Well there were a few bombshells in that Budget! As is typical of the first Budget of a new government, as much bad news was... Read More
Budget Summer 2015 – The highlights
George Osborne presented the new Government’s first Budget of this Parliament on Wednesday 8 July 2015. This was the first Conservative Budget for 19 years... Read More
Budget Summer 2015 – IHT threshold increased to £1M
Inheritance tax threshold increased to £1M, this is one of the headlines from yesterday’s Budget and appears to achieve a Pre-election pledge. What are the... Read More
Our review of the March 2015 Budget
The pre election scenario, laying the ground rules, but with coalition partners at appease and an the Election looming
The March 2015 Budget – The highlights
George Osborne presented the final Budget of this Parliament on Wednesday 18 March 2015 – reporting ‘on a Britain that is growing, creating jobs and... Read More
March 2015 Budget: Brian Jukes’ view
This was probably the most political Budget I have ever had the pleasure of sitting through. The Chancellor used it as an opportunity to announce... Read More
March 2015 Budget: The end of Tax Returns?
The headlines following the Budget indicated that “end of year tax returns will be scrapped” and “tax returns will become a thing of the past.”... Read More
Charities: The 2015 Budget
There were many analogies in the Chancellor’s budget to “fixing the roof while the sun shines”, but it appears that we can take him at... Read More
2015 Budget: Our live Linkedin and Twitter Budget feed
Abolishing the annual tax return for self employed. Revolutionary digital tax accounts from next year. The rise of The Cloud, real time tax information and... Read More
2015 Budget: Boost for Farmers
The Budget provided a boost for self employed farmers who will be able to average their taxable profits over 5 years compared to the current... Read More
The 2015 Budget: No accounting for humour
For those armed with a checklist of clichés and groaning gags, this was a Budget of highs and lows. But few afficiandos of English history... Read More