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A self-employed view of the 2025 Budget

27 November 2025

The run up to yesterday’s budget was chaotic. Widespread scaremongering about tax rises and VAT registration threshold drops caused a lot of uncertainty, but the 2025 Autumn Budget could have been a lot worse for self-employed people. Income tax, National Insurance and VAT The freeze in income tax and National Insurance (NI) thresholds has been…
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Is Self Assessment dead?

13 November 2025

A brief history of Self Assessment Self Assessment was first introduced in 1995-96. At that point, the tax system changed from working on a “preceding year basis of assessment” to a current year basis, which reduced the delay between a sole trader earning the profits and finding out how much tax was due. Under the…
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A self-employed view of the 2025 Budget

Is Self Assessment dead?