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Sestini & Co | on Wed, 03/18/2015 - 14:04 | In
Uncategorized An end of parliamentary term Budget is always an interesting one, will the incumbents play safe to avoid upsetting the apple cart or will they pull a few prize rabbits out of the hat to woo the uncertain? And how many cliches will be trotted out and repeated – Northern Powerhouse, anyone?
Among the headlines:
- the personal allowance to rise to £10,800 and £11,000 next, with a £12,000 allowance potentially on the horizon;
- threshold for 40% rate to rise to £43,300 by 2017/18;
- up to £1,000 of savings income tax free with a removal of tax withholding at source on bank accounts;
- pension lifetime allowance down to £1m but will be indexed from 2008;
- flexibility for existing pensioners to access annuities;
- a more flexible ISA and a help-to-buy ISA with a government top-up;
- class 2 NI contributions abolished;
- employer’s national insurance abolished for under-21’s this year and for apprentices next year;
- annual investment allowance to be reset but unlikely to be as low as £25,000;
- much talk of additional measures to tackle tax evasion; and
- lastly but definitely not least: “The Death of the Annual Tax return”….more on what this will mean later, together with an analysis of key points coming out of the draft legislation.
In summary, a few more surprises than we expected here at Sestini & Co, although some had already been leaked in the last couple of days.
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