Spring Budget 2024 – the pre-Election gamble
At what was likely to be the last fiscal event before the General Election, we expected a few surprises to be dropped in to woo the voters, although most of these were let out of the bag over the weekend in what seemed to be the most briefed budget ever known. But with so many […]
Spring Budget 2024 – tax cuts and rebalance
The tax giveaway… again? In what seemed somewhat like a moment of déjà vu, the Chancellor announced a further reduction to the rate of national insurance to add to that introduced at the Autumn Statement 2023. With effect from 6 April 2024, the main rate of Class 1 national insurance paid by employees and Class […]