April 5, 2025

43 thoughts on “UK October Budget 2024 – My Take

  1. You have a lovely way of making difficult and often felt to be quite boring concepts and principles, really interesting. Is Teddy learning independence? Warm congratulations on your influencer award.

  2. Re CGT rates, is this purely based on your taxable ‘working’ income, or does the value of gained asset get included too?

    Say for example I am a lower rate tax payer, but have a gain of ÂŖ150k on a second property – would I pay the lower 18% as I’m a lower rate tax payer or the higher 24%?

  3. How come is no-one talking about the fact that within the next 2 years anyone receiving the New State Pension (confirmed at ÂŖ12,016 next year) will be paying basic rate tax (threshold ÂŖ12,570 until 2028) on their state pension?

  4. Best analysis of the budget. I imagine you’ll be invited onto the BBC to provide analysis one day.

    One thing I’ve not heard anyone talk about is the reduction in repayment of national debt as a result of falling interest rates over time. I think a 50bp fall would give c. ÂŖ12 billion pa. Any opinion?

  5. Torsten Bell's book "Great Britain?" includes a good outline of a more appropriate way to organise public accounting and debt measures. Made sense. Some of his other stuff a little socialist but this area made sense.

  6. Sadly the Labour Chancellor doesn't understand that the poorest in society are being robbed by the employer NI tax increases.

    Workers in the agency labour supply industry are paid an assignment rate that incorporates employer's NI!!! It is processed by third party payroll companies. Both Agency and Payroll companies have been colluding for many years now over paying the worker an assignment rate where the worker foots the employer's and the employee's national insurance tax.

    This is blindness by the Labour Party. The result is a tax on the poorest.

  7. Dear Ramin
    Evade CGT by selling Pensioncraft to Teddy. Anyone can see that he has a real nose for business.
    Also, his Biltong treats are tax deductible, and you can still work for him behind the scenes.

  8. Hi Ramin. I like you hold Tritax big box, since the budget the price has fallen, Would this be simply down to the fact that it is expected that savings interest rates are likely to stay higher for longer therefore making the dividend from the Reit less attractive or maybe from some other implementation of the budget?

  9. When a person buys stock or loans money (buys guilts or equivalent) the capital IS being used to finance investment.
    So one does not need to spend their savings on widgets (or services) to make "better" use of the capital.

  10. These tax changes are all part of the globalist agenda… destroy small businesses, destroy the middle class, become reliant on the state, bring in the social credit system like China, introduce Universal Basic Income, and introduce CBDCs (programmable money)…

  11. Capital Gain Tax; seems a bit odd that basic rate taxpayers were given a higher increase (8%) than higher rate taxpayers (only 4%) since I doubt if they have 'broader shoulders'.
    Any idea why?
    Best I can come up with is that higher rate payers have more freedom to take tax avoiding action like delaying a CGT triggering sale, but fully admit that it sounds very unconvincing.

  12. Ramin where can we put our money to save ourselves from the impending GBP crash. Gilts are going ballistic.

    GBP is totally screwed and is going on a long term death spiral.

  13. Isn't most money in pension funds simply used to purchase 2nd hand securities, meaning no additional money is being provided for the use of the companies who issued the securities – is it really correct to call it 'investing'?

  14. Labour’s policy – if you make it, we’ll take it.

    Thankful I left the U.K. and have become non-resident so none of this concerns me, but, I feel for friends and family.

  15. I'm favoured only God knows how much I praise Him, $230k every 4weeks! I now have a big mansion and can now afford anything and also support God’s work and the church.

  16. The problem is that there is too much government borrowing and too much debt . I do not trust the government on anything they say or promise. If there is one learning of the last year then it is how dishonest our leaders really are

    I fear this budget – though good in parts ( NHS SCHOOLS) is going to do more harm than good

  17. You say about the amount of money that we (77 Yr old) hang on to when it could be spent. My hanging on is informed by my M In L RIP who spent last 3 years in care at ÂŖn00 a week. If the care system were sorted out payed for over a life time then we wouldn't be so insecure in our later years. I started paying tax at 15 working 12 weeks a year on a farm and at that age I thought that care would be sorted for me (as much as I thought about anything long term)

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