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Posted on: 05 May, 16

Budget 2016: the impact on your finances today and in future years to come

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne delivered his eighth Budget speech on Wednesday 16 March, his third in 12 months. In our summary of the key announcements, we consider how they could impact on your finances today and in future years to come.

Tax and savings were central to Mr Osborne’s 62-minute speech, including the unveiling of a retirement savings vehicle for millennials called the Lifetime Individual Savings Account (LISA).

Ultimately, this is a testing ground for the Pensions ISA proposed before Budget 2016, and it gives the Government the option to see how consumers react to the ISA option.

Mr Osborne added that people under 40, many of whom haven’t had a good deal from the pensions system, would gain government bonuses for saving into their LISAs, receiving £1 from the Government for every £4 saved, at a maximum of £4,000 a year.

For investors, there was good news with the higher rate of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) being cut from 28% to 20%, which comes into effect from April this year. Now it is even more attractive to create wealth through capital gains rather than earnings for higher-rate taxpayers on all gains apart from on residential property or ‘carried interests’. The details are to follow, but this will enable investors to benefit by realising the profit on the sale of shares and other assets at the reduced rate of tax.

The Chancellor raised the earnings threshold at which you start paying Income Tax, from £10,600 to £11,500 from 6 April 2017. Higher earners were originally paying 40% tax on income over £42,385, but this threshold now rises to £45,000 from 6 April 2017.

Plans have also been laid out to raise £12bn by the end of this Parliament through a package of measures to target tax avoidance. The Government will introduce new measures to tackle disguised remuneration and make sure UK tax is paid on property development.

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