With the eyes and ears of UK financial services focused on what Chancellor Hunt will reveal in his Spring Budget at lunchtime today, the good news is that for IFA Magazine readers, we’ll be doing a lot of the heavy lifting here on IFA Magazine’s dedicated ‘BUDGET 2024 NEWS & ANALYSIS SECTION‘
The team and I are poised to bring you all the latest news as it happens. As you might have already noticed, our Budget coverage is already well under way. There are plenty of predictions and lots of early analysis from experts working across the profession as they share their views on what might be in Jeremy Hunt’s Red Box come 12.30 today. Will there be any ‘rabbits out of the hat’ moments? Will he tweak tax on holiday lets? What about Non-Doms? Or SDLT? All of these are under the microscope.
A 2% cut to NICs – what will that mean for workers?
First and foremost is the 2% cut to National Insurance contributions, which is leading the national news broadcasts this morning. With a report first appearing in The Times yesterday, the BBC reported earlier that Downing Street has now confirmed this as one of the measures to be announced. But what might that look like? There’s plenty of analysis already in on just that in this story you can check out now on IFA Magazine.
Don’t miss tomorrow’s Special Budget Debrief Podcast
Tune in to our Budget Podcast Special edition of IFA Talk which will go live tomorrow afternoon – March 7th. In it, our Senior Financial Reporter, Jenny Hunter and I will be getting the full Budget lowdown from Dynamic Planner’s Head Actuary, Steph Willcox.
And our International Women’s Day features on Women in Finance
We’ll also be talking to Steph about the role of Women in Finance ahead of International Women’s Day coming up this Friday, 8th March. Again, we’ll be running our usual campaign to celebrate the role of women in finance here in the UK – you can find all our IWD 2024 features here – starting bright and early on Friday morning! See you there!
