Author Archives: Harry Swift
UK Spring Budget 2024
The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his Spring Budget today to a rowdy House of Commons that had to be called to order before it had even properly started. Noting this is an election year, he painted a positive picture of the UK’s economy stating the UK had the lowest national debt in the […]
UK Chancellor’s Autumn Statement Highlights
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, UK tax levels are at their highest since records began 70 years ago. After the usual speculation in the press over the last week, we learned today from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in his Autumn Statement mini-budget whether there would be any tax cuts. There were no proposed changes […]
UK Spring Budget 2023
Written by Johana Regatuso and Harry Swift. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has now delivered his statement on UK tax and spending. Out of the past five Chancellors, he is only the second to hold the iconic red box outside No. 11 Downing Street. There has been very little in the press in the run-up to this […]
2022 UK Autumn Statement: Are you affected?
The UK Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, this morning delivered his much-anticipated Autumn Statement. He promised a “balanced plan for stability” and asked, “those with more to contribute more”. He started by setting out the changes to personal taxes. There were no surprises here as these had been trialled in the media over the last week. The […]