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Autumn Budget 2024 Summary
Autumn Budget 2024 Summary

Autumn Budget 2024 SummaryChancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Budget on Wednesday 30 October 2024. She pledged to ‘invest, invest, invest’ to drive growth and ‘restore economic stability’. Billions in tax rises Ms Reeves said the Budget will raise £40 billion in...

Autumn Budget 2024 – Key Tax Announcements
Autumn Budget 2024 – Key Tax Announcements

Today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her 2024 Spring Budget where she summarised the UK economic performance and announced her proposals for tax. In this budget, the chancellor announced that she will raise taxes by £40bn to increase government funding. In this...

Hawsons advise on Spawforths move to Employee Ownership

Hawsons Corporate Finance had the pleasure of supporting Spawforths, a masterplanning and architectural consultancy based in Wakefield during their transition into employee ownership. The Wakefield-based company works on an array of development projects, spanning from...

Date announced for 2024 Autumn Budget
Date announced for 2024 Autumn Budget

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that she will deliver her Autumn Budget on Wednesday 30th October. This will be Rachel Reeves’ first Budget as Chancellor. It should also provide an insight into what direction the new Labour government will take on tax policy....

Millions shifted into higher tax brackets
Millions shifted into higher tax brackets

As tax thresholds remain unchanged, the number of taxpayers paying the additional rate will exceed 1 million for the first time. Tax revenue and increasing burden This year, HMRC is projected to collect £63.2 billion in income tax, contributing to a total of £272.6...

Hawsons Charity Football Tournament 2024
Hawsons Charity Football Tournament 2024

On Friday (12th July), we hosted our annual charity football tournament to raise money for Sheffield Cathedral’s Schools Singing Programme as part of the Master Cutler Challenge. We would like to thank the following firms for taking part in our tournament and helping...

Emma Stuart promoted to Assistant Manager
Emma Stuart promoted to Assistant Manager

Hawsons are pleased to announce that on 1st July 2024 Emma Stuart was promoted to Assistant Manager in the Audit department of our Sheffield office. Emma joined the firm in 2020 on the firm’s graduate scheme, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 2023. During her...

HLB wins Network of the Year in 2024
HLB wins Network of the Year in 2024

We are pleased to announce that our International network HLB International has won the prestigious award of ‘Network of the Year’ at the International Accounting Forum awards ceremony in London. This is the third time that HLB have won this award in the last five...

Drive business growth with management accounts
Drive business growth with management accounts

Looking to drive business growth? There are many types of business growth such as organic, strategic and mergers to name just a few. In this article, we explore how conducting regular management accounts can give business owners the financial information they need to...

HLB Communities Day 2024 – 7th June
HLB Communities Day 2024 – 7th June

Its HLB Communities Day! To show our support, we have setup a food bank collection in each of our three offices.  We would like to thank all of our staff for donating so generously for such worthy causes.In our Sheffield office we collected food for the S6 FoodbankIn...