Autumn Budget 2025 – Personal Tax Changes

Autumn Budget 2025 – Personal Tax Changes

Personal Tax Tax bands and rates The basic rate band remains at £37,700, with the higher rate threshold remaining at £50,270. The additional rate threshold remains at £125,140. The freeze of these thresholds will continue until April 2031. The NICs Primary Threshold...
Autumn Budget 2025 – Full Summary

Autumn Budget 2025 – Full Summary

Introduction Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves set out tax-raising measures worth up to £26 billion in the Autumn Budget on 26 November 2025. The increases will be achieved through a range of measures, including extending the freeze on Income Tax thresholds...
Winter fuel payment clawback

Winter fuel payment clawback

Thousands of eligible pensioners will receive a Winter Fuel Payment this winter. Whether or not you can keep the money will depend on your taxable income. If you were born before 22 September 1959 and you live in England, Wales or Northern Ireland you could get up to...
Class 2 NIC error update

Class 2 NIC error update

From the 2024-25 tax year, self-employed individuals with profits in excess of £6,725 no longer need to pay Class 2 NICs. Instead those taxpayers will receive a National Insurance credit to secure their access to contributory benefits such as the state pension....
Childcare costs – don’t miss out!

Childcare costs – don’t miss out!

Tax-free childcare Many working families will now be arranging childcare for the school summer holidays and the start and end of the school day from September. The Government’s tax-free childcare scheme could provide up to £2,000 a year per child, or £4,000 if...
Guidance for non-doms

Guidance for non-doms

With effect from 6 April 2025 the preferential tax treatment enjoyed by UK resident individuals whose permanent home is outside the UK (‘non-doms’) has been withdrawn. Before this date, non-doms could benefit from the remittance basis of taxation for up to...