2024–25—Budgets and Finance Bills

This subtopic draws together content on the fiscal events throughout the tax year 2024–25, starting with the Spring Budget on 6 March 2024.

All the analysis produced in this subtopic will be collected in Practice Note: 2024–25—Fiscal events, including Spring Budget 2024 and Finance Bill 2024—Private Client analysis.

For more information on the annual Budget and Finance Bill process, see Practice Note: The Budget and Finance Bill process and Tax—Finance Bill 2025 tracker.

Spring Budget 2024

The Spring Budget 2024 was delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, on Wednesday 6 March 2024.

Our analysis includes:

  1. Spring Budget 2024—Private Client analysis—a summary of the key private client announcements in the Spring Budget and initial reactions from experts in the market,

  2. Video analysis—Spring Budget 2024: Key Private Client announcements—Neil Lancaster, Private Client partner and John Bull, Head of US UK Private Client at Blick Rothenberg LLP discuss the key Private Client measures announced in the Spring Budget 2024,

  3. Spring Budget 2024—Tax analysis—a summary of the key business tax announcements in the Spring Budget and

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FTT holds that OIGs and AIPs arising in offshore protected trusts are not protected foreign source income (Louwman v Revenue and Customs Commissioners)

Private Client analysis: The case of Louwman v Revenue and Customs concerned Ms Louwman, a UK resident non-domiciled taxpayer who had set up offshore protected property trusts on 7 March 2017, just prior to the implementation of the deemed domicile regime on 6 April 2017. Ms Louwman sought to shield income and gains in those trusts from taxation after she became deemed domiciled for the tax year commencing 6 April 2018, on the basis that the trusts were offshore protected property trusts and the income and gains in those trusts would not be attributed to her on an arising basis. HMRC assessed Ms Louwman to income tax on the basis that offshore income gains (OIGs) and accrued income profits (AIPs) that had arisen in the offshore protected trusts were subject to income tax on an arising basis. Ms Louwman resisted the assessments on the basis that these items of income were ‘protected foreign source income’. The matter went to the irst-tier tribunal for determination and the tribunal considered that the items of income were not ‘protected foreign source income’ on the basis that they could not be said to have a source, and particularly a foreign source. The tribunal therefore considered that they should be subject to income tax. The tribunal also considered that it was not appropriate to take a rectifying interpretation of the definition of ‘protected foreign source income’ in section 721A of the Income Tax Act 2007 (ITA 2007) even though OIGs and AIPs may have been omitted from the definition of protected foreign source income by the inadvertence of Parliament. Written by Ben Symons, barrister at Old Square Tax Chambers.

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