Insights
Autumn Budget 2025
10 Nov 2025Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ 2025 autumn budget is one of the most highly anticipated in recent years. The Chancellor faces the challenge of balancing promises on tax with the need to boost growth.
Clarity on overseas pensions lacking from Legislation Day
25 Jul 2025The policy objective behind the draft legislation and supporting papers in relation to pensions serves to counter two manifest concerns. It aims to remove distortions, amassed over years of changes to pension tax legislation, which have led to pension schemes being increasingly used, and (overtly) marketed, as a tax planning vehicle to transfer wealth rather than for funding retirement. It also aims to remove inconsistencies in the inheritance tax treatment of different types of pensions.
Hugely significant legislation day looms
18 Jul 2025Next Monday, 21 July 2025, the Government will publish draft legislation and other supporting papers for the tax policy changes which it previously announced. The aim is to publish before the recess to allow as much time as possible for assimilation.
Key changes in UK’s non-domicile regime overhaul
12 Nov 2024A new tax landscape: introducing the FIG regime, revised inheritance tax rules, and updates for offshore trusts.
Changes to inheritance tax on pensions: what to expect from April 2027
12 Nov 2024New rules bring defined contribution pensions into the IHT net - implications for estates and tax planning
Tackling tax non-compliance in the umbrella company market
08 Nov 2024In the Autumn 2024 Budget, the Government announced measures to combat tax non-compliance in the umbrella company market.
