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Tax | Budget 2025 at a glance: key tax changes

After the Budget, the Business & Accountancy Daily team trawled through the detail to provide a rundown of over 30 key measures affecting businesses, accountants and tax advisers with details of the changes, reaction and implications for individual taxpayers and business owners. Our selection of the most important announcements is listed below. For detailed technical information, download the Budget 2025 Report by our team of Croner-i tax specialists

12 Dec 2025

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Tax | One in five accountants ‘very negative’ about impact of Budget

A flurry of post-Budget surveys by accounting and professional bodies has shown just how unpopular the chancellor’s choices have been for business

11 Dec 2025

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Tax | Chancellor clashes with MP over tax hikes

Rachel Reeves grilled over tax rising Budget while criticising ‘incredibly damaging’ unauthorised backroom briefings with press

10 Dec 2025

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Business | Fine of £5k for breaches of HMRC tax adviser register

Details of plans for the new HMRC tax adviser ‘interact’ register have become clearer in 18 pages of legislation in draft Finance (No.2) Bill with firms required to register not individual staff members

8 Dec 2025

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Tax | Finance Bill runs to 554 pages

Bumper Finance (No.2) Bill released running to 554 pages, the longest piece of tax legislation since 2017 with raft of measures to crack down on tax avoidance promoters and thresholds frozen for six years

8 Dec 2025

Law and Regulation

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Tax | Salary sacrifice curb will hit 3.3m employees

Removal of full tax free salary sacrifice on pensions with new £2,000 limit will hit nearly 300,000 companies with nearly half of current employee users facing higher tax bills

8 Dec 2025

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Tax | Budget 2025: more graduates dragged into paying back student loans

Low earning graduates have to pay more money sooner, as student loan repayment threshold frozen until 2030 at Budget

4 Dec 2025

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Tax | Frozen thresholds hit GPs hard in 60% tax twilight zone

After the Budget freeze on tax thresholds far into the future, Katie Collins, partner at Ramsay Brown, and a specialist in the medical sector, says this will have a hugely damaging effect on NHS capacity, putting pressure on GPs and practice owners, and pushing more towards fewer hours rather than having to pay huge tax bills

3 Dec 2025

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Tax | Budget 2025: employee car ownership schemes saved

Abolition of tax benefits on employee car ownership schemes (ECOS) will no longer come into effect in 2026 as planned with four-year delay confirmed

2 Dec 2025

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Tax | HMRC will end letters in post from March 2026

In a bid to slash print and postage costs by £50m and drag HMRC communications into the 21st century, letters will no longer be sent out automatically to taxpayers from next spring, with email alerts notifying them of new documents in their personal tax accounts or the HMRC app instead

2 Dec 2025

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Tax | HMRC register for tax advisers mandatory from May

Six months to go until mandatory register for all tax advisers who ‘interact’ with HMRC becomes mandatory, but still waiting for final exemptions

1 Dec 2025

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Business | Budget 2025: penalties for late corporation tax filing double

After nearly 30 years, government doubles size of fines for late filing of corporation tax returns after frozen in time since 1998

1 Dec 2025

Accountancy Firms

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Tax | Download our Budget 2025 Report

Tax experts at Croner-i have delved through the Budget to highlight the key changes for businesses and individual taxpayers. Download our exclusive Budget Report

1 Dec 2025

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Tax | How loan charge bills will be calculated

The government has issued details of how HMRC will calculate loan charge for nearly 40,000 taxpayers still facing tax bills for historic disguised remuneration scheme scandal

1 Dec 2025

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Tax | Budget 2025: more powers for HMRC

To crack down on tax avoidance, non-compliance and errors, government plans a host of new legal powers for HMRC on top of their existing arsenal

28 Nov 2025

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Tax | Budget 2025: abolition of £62 homeworking tax relief

An estimated 300,000 employees who work from home will be out of pocket after abolition of £62 homeworking tax relief from April

28 Nov 2025

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