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The Autumn Budget 2024
Key Announcements
- Plans to include an individual’s undrawn pension fund in their inheritance tax estate from April 2027.
- Plans to restrict inheritance tax agricultural and business property reliefs from April 2026.
- Another change in approach for businesses utilising double-cab pick-up vehicles, coming into effect in April 2025.
- From April 2025, many employers will face increased costs due to a 6.7% rise in the national minimum wage, bringing it to £12.21, and substantial reforms to employers’ national insurance contributions, which will increase from 13.8% to 15%.
- Confirmation that 20% VAT will apply to private school fees for the school term beginning in January 2025.
- Immediate increases to Stamp Duty Land Tax, including for those buying residential property when they already own at least one dwelling.
- Immediate increases to capital gains tax rates with further uplifts in relation to some business disposals from both April 2025 and April 2026.