Autumn Budget 2024: Labour backs UK’s tech and creative sectors October 30, 2024 The UK’s technology and creative industries received a boost in Rachel Reeves’s Autumn Budget on Wednesday, as the Chancellor laid out capital investment plans that she said will “drive growth across the country.” Reeves confirmed plans to “capitalise” the National Wealth Fund to back industries set for future growth, including gigafactories, ports, and green hydrogen. [...]
Autumn Budget 2024: Labour abolishes non-dom tax status October 30, 2024 The Labour government has confirmed plans to scrap the non-dom regime despite a last ditch effort from the community and its advisors to warn against the move. As part of the Budget, Rachel Reeves confirmed she would fulfil the promise made in Labour’s manifesto to remove the tax status, in a move that one advisor [...]
Autumn Budget 2024: Reeves increases taxes on private equity profit October 30, 2024 The Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed she would raise taxes on the profit made by private equity dealmakers today but stepped back from the full-scale raid feared by some corners of the industry. In her maiden Budget, Reeves said the government would lift the levy to 32 per cent from April next year, up from the [...]
Autumn Budget 2024: Sweeping overhaul of inheritance tax regime revealed October 30, 2024 Alongside the changes to pension pots, the Chancellor said she was changing the taxation of gifts passed on during someone's lifetime.
Autumn Budget 2024: OBR forecasts how much economy will grow October 30, 2024 Forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility were published alongside the new government's first Budget.
Autumn Budget 2024 Live: Rachel Reeves unveils sweeping tax reforms October 30, 2024 Welcome to City AM’s Autumn Budget 2024 live blog in association with RBC Wealth Management. The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has set out out Labour’s tax and spending plans for the year ahead in the party’s first budget since coming to power over the summer. The Budget contains some of the biggest tax hikes in a [...]
London jobs market hit hard due to ‘frenzy of Budget speculation’ October 29, 2024 Muniya Barua, deputy chief executive at BusinessLDN, said that the "frenzy of Budget speculation" was weighing on employers' hiring intentions.
Consumers ‘despondent’ ahead of tax-hiking autumn Budget October 25, 2024 Neil Bellamy, consumer insights director at GfK, placed the blame for the decrease squarely on the Budget.
Evelyn Partners: Wealth manager warns clients fretting over Budget tax changes October 23, 2024 Wealth management and accountancy business Evelyn Partners has warned that its clients have been fretting over the raft of speculation coming out about next week’s Budget. Rumours about the contents of the Budget have been flying out of Westminster, with concerns that the Chancellor Rachel Reeves may move to hike a variety of taxes and [...]
Borrowing figures show Reeves is in a fiscal bind ahead of Budget October 22, 2024 The latest figures showed that borrowing in September exceeded expectations yet again, driven by higher government spending.