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Budget update

By Simon Browning on March 6, 2024

Pre-election Budgets tend to be full of political posturing and understandably very little tax reform or significant change. With a general election ahead of us, there was certainly more political posturing than normal in the Chancellor’s statement. Much was made of the economic turnaround and I’ll leave you to decide whether that was due to […]

Autumn Statement

By Simon Browning on November 22, 2023

On the back of last week's positive news of falling inflation, Jeremy Hunt seemed to have a spring in his step as he launched a series of changes with an air of confidence and optimism. There has been much speculation over the past week on Inheritance Tax changes and possible tax cuts. There was no […]

Budget update - back to work

By Simon Browning on March 15, 2023

It was expected to be a “steady as she goes” Budget from Jeremy Hunt and that was largely what we got. He suggested it was a Budget for growth but it felt more like optimism with stability for a fragile economy aiming to keep inflation under control with promises of further changes in the future. […]

Selling your business-how much tax will you have to pay?

By Simon Browning on January 19, 2023

I love seeing the success of a business realised by the owners who have worked so hard in it and I have enjoyed advising on hundreds of transactions over the years. There is so much that I could write on this topic so I am going to break it down into a series of articles […]

Timing is everything for pension contributions!

By Simon Browning on December 7, 2022

I know that pension savings aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but they do offer a highly tax efficient means of saving for retirement, reducing corporation tax and they can be a valuable inheritance tax saving tool. Many people I know like to maximise their contributions, which ordinarily means a payment of £40,000 per annum (being […]

Autumn Statement - return of the Tinker Man?

By Simon Browning on November 17, 2022

It’s been a rollercoaster in the tax and economics arena over recent months and today’s Autumn Statement has hopefully slowed things down but there was plenty of tinkering by Jeremy Hunt, which will no doubt be labelled in the press as “stealth taxes”. We already knew the main changes on income tax and corporation tax, […]

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