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Autumn Statement 2025

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We've summarised the Autumn Statement to make it easier to digest, download your copy here

Key Highlights
  • The income tax personal allowance and thresholds, as well as employee and self-employed national insurance contribution thresholds, will be frozen for another three years, until 6 April 2031.

  • Tax rates on dividends will rise for basic and higher rate taxpayers by two percentage points from 2026/27. On savings income and property income, rates will rise by two percentage points from 2027/28 for basic, higher and additional rate taxpayers.

  • Salary sacrifice to fund pension contributions will effectively be capped at £2,000 a year, starting in 2029/30.

  • From April 2028 a high value council tax surcharge will be introduced on properties valued at over £2 million.

  • A pay-per-mile charge will be introduced for electric vehicles (including hybrids) from April 2028.

  • Unused inheritance tax (IHT) agricultural and business reliefs will be transferable between spouses and civil partners on death.

  • The IHT nil rate band and residential nil rate band will be frozen for another year until 6 April 2031.

  • The maximum subscription to cash ISAs will be reduced to £12,000 from 2027/28 for those under age 65, but the overall ISA limit will remain at £20,000.

  • The two child benefit cap will be scrapped from April 2026.

  • Enterprise management incentive eligibility will be increased to allow scale-ups, as well as start-ups, from April 2026.

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