Budget 2025 Autumn

01 September 2025

A brighter future for Discounted Gift Trusts
A harsher IHT future for lifetime transfers could be good news for DGTs

29 August 2025

Budget day
Clues as to when the Autumn Budget might be

26 August 2025

Potential Budget timing
Why it looks like the Budget may not happen much before mid-November

26 August 2025

A bit more on Property tax rumours
Some further thoughts on the potential consequences of changing the way property is taxed

22 August 2025

Property tax rumours
A flurry of rumours has surfaced about potentially radical changes to the taxation of property and the possible abolition of SDLT. Be ready to answer client questions.

21 August 2025

Budget rumours and 2029/30
Why it pays to remember Rachel Reeves’ stability rule when considering the pre-Budget rumours now emerging

19 August 2025

Rumours of Inheritance Tax changes in the Autumn Budget
A flurry of rumours has surfaced about potentially radical changes to the taxation of Lifetime Gifts for Inheritance Tax

11 August 2025

To (increase) tax or not to (increase) tax
The Chancellor’s dilemma as we head towards the Autumn Budget

07 August 2025

The predicted black hole and the Chancellor's trilemma?
How big will the fiscal black hole be at the time of the Autumn Budget and how can the Chancellor fill it?

06 August 2025

Another deepening of the Budget black hole
The latest UK Economic Outlook, in which the National Institute for Economic and Social Research has said the Chancellor will miss her primary fiscal rule by over £40bn, double what some other organisations have suggested

31 July 2025

How will wealth be taxed in the UK?
Why we have seen so much in the press about possible reform of the taxation of wealth and the introduction of a new Wealth tax

23 July 2025

Latest developments in Taxation
Our commitment to keeping you informed on the key fundamentals that will drive taxation policy at the next Budget

17 July 2025

The Chancellor's Autumn Budget Challenge for taxation and spending
The current government's economic challenges stem from overspending, slower growth, and higher debt servicing costs — all leading to tough decisions.

16 July 2025

83% taxation on pensions post 5 April 2027
How a combination of IHT, the lost RNRB and income tax can decimate pension funds

14 July 2025

The OBR worries about fiscal drag
The impacts of freezing income tax bands and allowances. In its latest Fiscal Risks and Sustainability Report, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has made a timely comment on this

14 July 2025

The impact of the BPR and Pensions changes on IHT liabilities
2026 and 2027 to bring big changes to IHT liabilities- see just how much!

11 July 2025

OBR fiscal risks and sustainability report
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)'s latest long term examination of the fiscal outlook for the UK. It does not make cheery reading for the Chancellor – if she can take her eyes off the Government’s short term financial problems

03 July 2025

The next Budget has become even more challenging
Why the next Budget has become even more challenging. The Chancellor had two pieces of bad news to start July. Together they could mean that the Spring Statement’s £9.9bn fiscal headroom has disappeared

12 June 2025

The Spending Review 2025
The spending plans for the rest of this Parliament. While the NHS and Defence were winners, some departments are facing real terms cuts

10 June 2025

The Spending Review 2025 - the economic and fiscal backdrop
Ahead of the announcement of the Spending Review on Wednesday, we look at the economic and fiscal backdrop

09 June 2025

The Spending Review 2025 - what it does and does not involve and why it matters
The Spending Review, what it does and does not involve and why it matters

23 May 2025

Angela Rayner's tax proposals and the next Budget
Budget speculation. The Chancellor’s Spring Statement would have been markedly different if she had followed suggestions from the Deputy Prime Minister, according to recent reports