The economic backdrop for the Budget is not great. Growth in 2025 has slowed, public borrowing is up, debt-interest costs are high and rising, and there's a massive fiscal blackhole that only seems to be growing. This all means that Chancellor Rachel Reeves is under pressure ...
Autumn Budget 2025, Taxes rise as leaves fall gently, Growth is dissapointing
Although the OBR accidentally released the budget statement early, she was still able to stand at the dispatch box and make her statement, despite heckling from the opposition. Of course, she was still blaming the Tories for many of the country's woes, and one of the reasons for coming back for more taxes. We will have the highest tax burden ever by 2030.
Some of the headlines include a freeze in income tax thresholds, an increase in the National Minimum Wage, a new per-mile tax for electric vehicles, the two-child benefit cap being lifted, and salary sacrifice on pension contributions will pay National Insurance. All this in the face of a lower growth forecast from the OBR.
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Roger trained at Edward Thomas Peirson & Sons in Market Harborough before working at Hartwell & Co, followed by Chancery, as a partner. He started Essendon Accounts and Tax with Helen Beaumont in 2014 as a general practitioner with a hands-on approach.
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