Employee benefit consultants (EBCs) will face a variety of problems if the government merges income tax and national insurance (NI), experts say.
The government has announced plans to abolish life assurance premium relief (LAPR) in the budget.
Informed Choice managing director Martin Bamford says the Chancellor's announcement of a three-year freeze on new regulations for small businesses could derail the RDR.
Contracting-out for defined benefit (DB) pension schemes will be scrapped as part of the move to a single tier state pension.
Fund managers believe the revised growth forecast for the UK, revealed in today's Budget, is still too optimistic and may not be an achievable target.
The combined effect of banning contracting out and accepting Hutton's public sector pension reforms will "stoke the ire" of trade unions, warns Hargreaves Lansdown's Tom McPhail.
The Treasury will unveil a number of new tax changes to be introduced in 2011. Here are the key measures:
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said today the UK's economic recovery will lag previous recoveries in the 1980s and 1990s.
The price of UK 10-year government bonds stayed higher after the country's growth forecast for the year was slashed from 2.1% to 1.7% in George Osborne's Budget.
The Government will no longer remove the mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance for people in residential care.