Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May teams up with Bath Business News to bring you the top national finance stories. Spring Budget 2024: Personal news NICs slashed and non-dom tax regime abolished. Click here to find out more Spring Budget 2024: Expectations National Insurance set to be cut by a further 2% For more details, click here Spring Budget 2024:...
A family lawyer and partner with Bath-headquartered law firm Stone King has been appointed as a deputy district judge on the Western circuit. Alongside this part-time appointment, Daniela Nickols, pictured, will continue her work specialising in the representation of children both directly and through children’s guardians. This includes in care proceedings where local...
Rob Chedzoy, tax partner at South West accountancy firm Milsted Langdon, cautioned that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had targeted individuals with tax cuts at the expense of small businesses. He said the Chancellor had placed a heavy emphasis on relieving the financial burden on families and working individuals following a period of high living costs...
Phil Smith, managing director of Business West, the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, said while the Budget offered a number of initiatives that were likely to benefit the region’s businesses it lacked any measure that would tackle big issues such as transport, housing and infrastructure. “The creative and hospitality industries, which are significant contributors...
West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris, pictured, said “hard-pressed” West of England residents and businesses were still struggling with 70-year high levels of tax under the Conservatives, “despite today’s desperate attempts from the Chancellor to pretend otherwise”. The Labour leader of the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), which covers Bath, added: “Instead of...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered his Spring Budget. The main points were: The Chancellor said growth had been higher in the UK since 2010 than every other European economy. But future growth would not come from mass immigration. He promised a Budget for future growth. Inflation had been halved to 4%. It was 11% when...
