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Financial Focus: Winter 2024
In this issue... Rachel Reeves’s Autumn Budget, the first of the new Labour government, pointedly avoided direct tax increases on individuals. However increased employer NICs for 2025/25 are likely to test already stretched profit margins for many businesses....
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Please note our offices will be closed over the festive period from midday on Christmas Eve until 9am on Thursday 2 January. Please click here to read the Winter issue of Financial Focus, which looks at tackling the Autumn Budget outcomes. In place of sending printed...
Financial Focus: Winter 2023
In this issue...Our winter newsletter includes a closer look at the outcomes of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement. We also look at the changing face of retirement planning, from the rising popularity of annuities in the face of greater returns, to changes in...
Autumn Statement Snapshot 2023
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, presented the Autumn Statement to Parliament earlier today. This Autumn Statement is not likely to be the last fiscal event before next year's expected General Election, but it is taking place as Labour continues to hold a...
Financial Focus: Autumn 2023
In this issue...As the equation between inflation, interest rates and markets has shifted, the options for income seekers have widened. Our feature considers the impact on the broader investment landscape – government bonds are also showing more positive returns. The...
Financial Focus: Summer 2023
In this issue...Inflation has stubbornly remained higher than the Bank of England's predictions for June 2023, prolonging higher costs for most, but elsewhere in the financial landscape there are more beneficial developments. Annuities are now providing an increased...
Financial Focus: Spring 2023
In this issue...The reappearance of a full Budget in March almost three years after the start of the pandemic marked a return to ‘business as usual’. The circumstances, however, with record inflation and a cost of living crisis, are anything but usual. Although many...
Spring Budget 2023
Spring Budget 2023 Enterprise, Education, Employment, Everywhere... All at once! Introduction The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, presented the Spring Budget to Parliament earlier today. This Spring Budget is the first full Budget since October 2021. Since...
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