24th March 2011
Budget 2011
Well, not a lot of exciting news from the Chancellor yesterday, but some of the more salient points were:
- Fuel duty to be cut by 1p per litre from 6pmyesterday (23rd March)
- Fuel duty inflation rise delayed until 1st January 2012 (Planned April 2012 rise delayed until 1st August 2012)
- Fuel duty escalator cancelled
- Council tax frozen by every Council in England
- Personal tax allowance up to £8,105 from 2012
- 43 reliefs abolished as part of this budget
- Consultation to be undertaken to merge Income tax and NI – could take a number of years to complete
- Government introducing a reduced rate of inheritance tax of 36 per cent from April 2012 for estates leaving 10 per cent or more to charity
- 50p tax rate confirmed as a temporary measure but “not the right time to remove the 50p rate”
- CII Chartered Financial Planners
- IFP Institute of Financial Planning
- Independent Financial Adviser
- Resolution - first for family law
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