Tax Journal's 2024 Spring Budget coverage

Photograph: HM Treasury

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  An entrée before the manifesto main course?

This Parliament’s last Spring Budget delivered on a number of political objectives, as well as setting the scene for the future, writes Chris Sanger (EY).

• Spring Budget 2024

A detailed report by Lexis®+ UK Tax, with additional practitioner comment.

• A welcome ‘as you were’ for most corporates

  Mike Lane (Slaughter and May)

• Capital allowances: extension of full expensing to leased assets

  Paul Farey (AECOM)

• The impact on SMEs

  David Whiscombe (BKL)

• Private client perspective: sweeping and multi-faceted reform

  Dominic Lawrance (Charles Russell Speechlys)

• Cuts to NICs: giving back a portion of what’s already been taken

  Paul Johnson (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

• Property tax perspective

  Caroline Fleet (Crowe UK)

• Mitigating tax risk: time to join a professional body?

  Kate Ison (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner)

• Welcome news on RIFs

  Camilla Spielman (Eversheds Sutherland)

• Extension of Energy Profits Levy

  Jenny Doak (Weil Gotshal & Manges)

• Economics view: making the most of a bad hand

Duncan Weldon (Economist)

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Tax rates and allowances Updated post-Budget for 2024/25