Treasury Updates

The Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt delivered his Spring Budget yesterday, 7 March. Our team have put together a useful summary outlining everything you need to know and, more [...]

As ever pre-budget speculation has been rife. With an election looming, the government want to be seen as lowering taxes and making life easier for working people. However, the announcement that [...]

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, presented his 2023 Autumn Statement to Parliament yesterday, 22 November. In his speech, the Chancellor said he was delivering an “Autumn Statement [...]

As usual, speculation was rife in advance of today’s Autumn statement. Theoretically this is an opportunity to update us on the state of the economy rather than to make dramatic tax changes. [...]

I have to confess to having had fairly low expectations of this budget, as we had already been told that corporation tax was going up and R&D relief for small and medium-sized companies was [...]

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered the 2022 Autumn Statement on Thursday 17 November. The Chancellor froze the thresholds to a number of personal taxes and cut the threshold for the additional rate [...]

How to increase taxes without increasing tax rates This has clearly been the title of Jeremy Hunt’s bedtime reading since he was appointed, and every possibility has been explored and exploited [...]

Over the last few days, we have seen a gradual dismantling of the mini-budget of Friday 23 September 2022, along with the economic policies that Prime Minister Liz Truss based her leadership [...]

The government’s plans for growth (Updated for the Chancellor’s announcement on 3 October 2022) Chancellor reveals his plan for growth The week leading up to Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘Mini [...]

The government’s plans for growth Our Budget Summary provides an overview of the key announcements arising from the Chancellor’s speech. However, it also looks beyond the headlines and offers [...]