Editor's message: When new beginnings come together

Professional Adviser will be back on Tuesday

Jen Frost
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This year, Easter, itself all about new beginnings, happens to coincide with a key date in financial planners’ calendars: the end of the tax year and the start of a fresh one.

Changes, including business property relief and agricultural property relief amendments and a dividend income tax rate increase, are coming into play from 6 April. This end of tax year, then, may feel rather different as Labour's Budget updates start to bed in. Next year promises further challenges, with IHT on pensions coming down the track for April 2027. Many of you will have been incredibly busy in the run up to crunch time of 5 April, and I hope that you do get a chance to relax over this long weekend. The team at Professional Adviser will be taking a well-earned break from to...

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