Spring Statement 2025 SummaryChancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, held the Spring Statement on Wednesday 26 March 2025. In the run up to the event, the Chancellor stated that she ‘remains committed to one major fiscal event a year to give families and...
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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
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...
Government U-turn on double cab pickup tax
Government U-turn on double cab pickup tax After just one week the government has u-turned on plans to classify double cab pickup trucks as cars for tax and VAT purposes which would have resulted in huge tax increases. This U-turn comes after huge criticism from...
When is the 2024 Spring Budget?
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will deliver his 2024 Spring Budget on Wednesday 6 March 2024. What time is the Budget? The Budget is expected to take place at about 12:30 pm, straight after PMQs. The first part of the statement typically begins with a review of the...
Autumn Statement Summary 2023
Autumn Statement 2023 On 22 November 2023, Jeremy Hunt delivered the ‘Autumn Statement for Growth’. Against an improving economic backdrop, the Chancellor is keen to stimulate economic growth and highlighted 110 measures for businesses. In addition, there were...
Autumn Statement 2023 – Key Tax Announcements
This afternoon, the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced his Autumn Statement. Below we have highlighted some of the key tax announcements made by the Chancellor. Employee National Insurance Contributions (NICs) cut The main rate of Class 1 employee NICs will be...
Tax incentives for capital investment
Super deduction and Annual Investment Allowance The introduction of the super deduction from April 1, 2021 was beneficial to capital-intensive industries such as logistics in that it provided companies with a deduction from taxable profits equal to 130% of the cost of...
Tax Rates and Allowances 2023/24
Introduction We have summarised the key rates and allowances which are fundamental to our business and personal lives. We are sure that you will find them a useful point of reference and have set out below a few examples of how they can be used. Personal tax rates As...
When is the 2023 Spring Budget?
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will deliver his 2023 Spring Budget on Wednesday 15th March 2023. What time is the Budget? The Budget is expected to take place at about 12:30 pm, straight after PMQs. The first part of the statement typically begins with a review of the...
Free support for region’s creative businesses
Creative businesses across the East Midlands are able to apply for free funding to help them accelerate business growth, create jobs and prepare for investment. The East Midlands Creative Consortium (EMC2) has begun accepting applications from high-potential creative...
HMRC delay Making Tax Digital by two years
What is being delayed? HMRC has announced that plans to implement digital tax reporting for unincorporated businesses and self-employed individuals and landlords in April 2024 will be delayed until April 2026. Why has MTD been delayed? HMRC have said that businesses...











