The merry-go-round of will-they-won’t-they Autumn Budget discourse continued into this week and will only ramp up.
Advisers and their clients may or may not (I'm leaning towards the latter) breathe a welcome sigh of relief at the contents of the impending budget, but it will at least be a breath of fresh air to get some certainty. Budget day (30 October) cannot come soon enough. PA's top story again this week focused on pensions budget speculation. A Labour-led goodbye to higher rate pensions tax relief is "highly unlikely" despite being potentially lucrative, as per an LCP paper. As LCP pointed out, it's unlikely that Labour will want to alienate mid-ranking and senior public sector workers, w...
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