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Chart of the week: Budget 2025 Fiscal Insight
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- 09 Jan 2026
Our chart this week returns to the scene of the Budget as we publish an in-depth analysis of its effect on the public finances and how it was ‘all about the headroom’.
Tax news in brief 6 January 2026
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- 06 Jan 2026
Highlights from the broader tax news for the period ending 6 January 2026, including: looking ahead to Spring Statement 2026; updated rates of interest on underpaid and overpaid tax; and news of the R&D advance assurance pilot.
2026: a difficult year ahead for the economy
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- 01 Jan 2026
The tricky economic climate is here to stay, but inflation is likely to fall more quickly in the year ahead, according to Suren Thiru, ICAEW's Director, Economies.
2026: New deal skills and more capital investment
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- 01 Jan 2026
While the economy may not be perfect, there are positive signs that we’ll see more public company and private equity activity in 2026, says David Petrie, ICAEW’s Head of Corporate Finance.
Economic update: What to expect in 2026?
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- 01 Jan 2026
Following a difficult end to 2025, the UK’s economic performance is likely to weaken further, despite lower inflation and falling interest rates. Suren Thiru, ICAEW’s Director, Economies, outlines what to expect in the year ahead.
Government makes further concessions on IHT reforms
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- 30 Dec 2025
The government has announced that the new allowance for 100% agricultural property relief (APR) and business property relief (BPR) for inheritance tax (IHT) will be increased from £1m to £2.5m.
Agents may be overlooking IHT on cryptoassets
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- 19 Dec 2025
HMRC is writing to agents who have previously submitted inheritance tax (IHT) returns to raise awareness of the requirement to account for IHT on cryptoassets. Any returns that contain an error should be corrected.
Public finances on track to reach OBR’s revised full year forecast
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- 19 Dec 2025
The public finance budget overrun was £16bn in the eight months to November 2025 and is expected to reach £20bn by the end of March 2026.
Chart of the week: Inflation
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- 19 Dec 2025
The Bank of England’s Christmas present to the nation of a cut in interest rates prompts our chart of the week to take a look at what is going under the hood of inflation.
Strengthening global relationships in 2025
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- 18 Dec 2025
In an increasingly interconnected global economy, ICAEW’s international presence plays a vital role in strengthening the accountancy profession, influencing policy, and supporting members wherever they live and work. Find out more about what was achieved this year.
Member Insights 2025: Lessons in resilience
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- 18 Dec 2025
Across the year, members navigated a challenging mix of rising employment costs, geopolitical tensions, tariff disruption, subdued consumer confidence and a persistent lack of policy certainty.
Your membership: Tax content to prepare you for 2026
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- 17 Dec 2025
From mandatory agent registration with HMRC to the start of Making Tax Digital for income tax, 2026 is shaping up to be a particularly challenging year for everyone working in tax. Stay informed and earn CPD with ICAEW’s tax content.
Influencing policy throughout 2025
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- 17 Dec 2025
As the Labour government marked its first year in power, ICAEW has worked to ensure members’ views are heard by policymakers on important issues, including employment rights, industrial strategy, apprenticeship funding and audit and corporate governance reform.
Can the government’s Business Growth Service get small businesses growing?
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- 15 Dec 2025
The Business Growth Service is designed to make it easier for small businesses to find the support they need.
Chart of the week: Net migration
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- 12 Dec 2025
Our chart this week illustrates the fall, rise and fall again of net inward migration over the past eight years and asks whether it will bounce back to hit the OBR’s long-term assumption by the end of the decade.
What are salary sacrificed pension contributions?
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- 10 Dec 2025
ICAEW’s Tax Faculty explains the circumstances in which the cap on the national insurance contributions (NIC) exemption for salary sacrificed pension contributions, announced at the Autumn Budget 2025, are likely to apply.
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.
Budget expected to have negative impact on businesses, says ICAEW
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- 04 Dec 2025
An ICAEW poll has found that close to three-quarters of respondents agreed the Budget would negatively impact their organisation.
Taxpayers reminded to ensure returns are correct and complete
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- 03 Dec 2025
Following the publication of guidance earlier this year, HMRC is asking wealthy taxpayers to ensure that any legal interpretation applied in a tax return or other document sent to HMRC is "correct in both fact and law”.
Budget: New loan charge settlement opportunity
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- 02 Dec 2025
The government has said it will accept almost all of Ray McCann’s recommendations for a new settlement opportunity and go further by writing off the first £5,000 of debt, in the hope that this will give individuals “a path to resolution”.
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