Spring statement 2025

The Spring statement 2025 was full of political rhetoric, every announcement was followed by  promised by this government, delivered by this government, opposed by the parties opposite.  The most significant statement from a tax perspective was that we would...

Budget 2021

At the time of the last Budget the Chancellor could not have expected the Coronavirus crisis to be going on still and it feels like he has has had monthly mini Budgets ever since. The Budget 2021 did not surprise with continued support for the economy and an expected...

HMRC Scams

It is easy to be mislead by HMRC scams as a client today discovered when he was called by someone claiming to be from HMRC alleging there was a warrant out for his arrest.  Having spoken to HMRC as his agent they said that my client would definitely have know if there...

Autumn Budget 2017

The autumn budget 2017 is the first of the new annual budgets, now the spring version has been deemed as not necessary.  Nonetheless there was little of note and there were few surprises and much had already been released.  The headline if any stemmed from maintaining...