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Follow all the announcements from today's Pre-Budget Report (PBR) as they happen on IFAonline from about 12.30pm.

As reports emerge Chancellor Alistair Darling will announce a delay to the Government's Personal Accounts scheme, advisers and their clients will also be on the look-out for announcements about pensions tax relief, IHT and CGT among others. Will the Government abolish higher rate tax relief altogether? Elsewhere, the Government may attempt to signal differences between itself and the Tories by tightening IHT exemptions and allowances. The growing gap between the 18% CGT rate and the rate on top incomes, currently 50%, has also prompted some to speculate an increase in CGT is highly...

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