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Chart of the week: Budget 2025 debt blues
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- 05 Dec 2025
Our chart this week illustrates how despite being a “tax-raising Budget”, the cumulative net effect of all the changes announced last week is to add £61bn to the public sector net debt forecast for 31 March 2030.
NAO: Climate reporting has honed public bodies’ risk radar
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- 01 Dec 2025
In the course of preparing for mandatory climate disclosures, central government bodies have improved their risk-management procedures and other operations, says report.
Economy explainers: what is the public balance sheet?
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- 28 Nov 2025
What is the 'public balance sheet' and what does it mean for people and businesses? ICAEW experts offer this simple guide on the public balance sheet – the government’s assets and liabilities – why they matter and the future outlook.
Economy explainers: public finances and spending
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- 28 Nov 2025
What are the public finances and how do they affect people and businesses? ICAEW experts offer this simple guide on how the government raises money and how it spends it, as well as the future outlook.
Economy explainers: what is the deficit?
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- 28 Nov 2025
Journalists and politicians talk a lot about ‘the deficit’. But what is it and how does it affect people and businesses? ICAEW experts offer this simple guide on the deficit, why it matters, and the future outlook.
Chart of the week: Autumn Budget 2025
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- 27 Nov 2025
Our chart this week looks at how the Chancellor used tax rises to refill and increase her budget headroom after forecast revisions and spending increases eliminated the projected current budget surplus for 2029/30.
Budget: Freeze on personal allowance extended
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- 26 Nov 2025
The Chancellor extended the period during which the personal allowance will be set at £12,570 and the higher rate threshold at £50,270 by three years, until April 2031. The amounts have been frozen since April 2021.
Public finances continue to disappoint ahead of the Budget
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- 24 Nov 2025
The cumulative budget overrun has widened from £7bn to £10bn in seven months, reveals latest data from the Office for National Statistics.
Reforming VAT could raise £80bn a year, says ICAEW
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- 21 Nov 2025
ICAEW is urging the government to consider a single rate of VAT with minimal exemptions. Such reforms will make it simpler to do business and generate billions for the UK economy.
Chart of the week: Controlling for debt
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- 21 Nov 2025
Our chart this week shows how the high level of public debt is the main factor shaping next week’s Autumn Budget.
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