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UK tax weekly update: Welsh budget and LTT rises, Scottish budget commentary, VAT and PAYE rulings, corporation tax changes, HMRC guidance, trackers and key dates—12 December 2024

Published on: 12 December 2024

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Budgets and Finance Bills

In this edition:

  • Budgets and Finance Bills
  • Anti-avoidance
  • Taxes management and litigation
  • VAT
  • Individuals and income tax
  • Employment taxes
  • Companies and corporation tax
  • Daily and weekly news alerts
  • New and updated content
  • Dates for your diary
  • Trackers
  • Useful information

Draft Welsh Budget 2025–26 published

On 10 December 2024, Finance Minister Mark Drakeford unveiled the draft Welsh Budget for 2025–26. The principal tax measures are:

  • retaining the Welsh Rates of Income Tax at 10p, keeping parity with taxpayers in England;
  • from 11 December 2024, raising Land Transaction Tax on higher rates residential property transactions by 1 percentage point in every band; and
  • from 1 April 2025, lifting Landfill Disposals Tax to £6.30 (lower rate), £126.15 (standard rate) and £189.25 for unauthorised disposals, maintaining the latter at 150% of the standard rate.

Published alongside the draft Budget, the Welsh Tax Policy Report 2024 offers further analysis of these changes and sets out plans for a visitor levy and new environmental taxes...

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