2025 Spring forecast
Spring forecast from the new Labour government – Our review, views, opinions…
The 2025 Spring Forecast
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The October 2024 Budget
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Tax Rates 2024-25
Available as a PDF download, here is our annual tax rates card for the 2024-25 tax year
This Tax Rates Card is applicable to the period from 5 April 2024, but things may change following the October 2024 Budget…..
The Daffernomics Podcast
Episode 4
Our review of the October 2024 Budget
The long awaited and much speculated on first Budget of the new Labour government has finally been brought into the light. Relief is our overriding emotion – on two levels – firstly to get it out of the way and secondly the sense that it wasn’t as bad as we were all fearing. No “rabbits produced from hats” unfortunately, but quite a few “toads from holes”.
In episode 4 of The Daffernomics Podcast, recorded on the afternoon of the Budget on 30 October 2024, Martin Gibbs, Brian Jukes, and Scott Whitmore review a Budget that will set the tone for the next five years.
March 2024 Budget news and blogs
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The Daffernomics Podcast
Episode 2
Our review of the March 2024 Budget
In what proved to be the final Conservative Budget before the July 2024 General Election, there were no rabbits, no hats and few jokes from Jeremy Hunt, the Chuckle Brother of decline. Brian Jukes was not impressed, in fact he was irritated…..
In episode 2 of The Daffernomics Podcast, Martin Gibbs, Brian Jukes, Emily Ball-Goldfinch and Scott Whitmore pick over the bones of what might prove to be the last Budget before the General Election.
Once again the headline from this Budget was leaked in advance as Jeremy Hunt cut Employees’ National Insurance by a further 2% from April 2024, matching a previous 2% cut in January 2024.
It is often said that there is a fine line between genius and madness. Never before in my working lifetime have I considered that comparison to be more appropriate to UK fiscal policy
Brian Jukes – Dafferns Tax Partner on 23 September 2022
Having just sat through the so called Mini Budget I can summarise my reaction by a mixture of shock and fear – fear for the future of the UK if the Government’s tax gamble doesn’t pay off, shock in that I have never seen such a dramatic change of direction before
