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Autumn Budget 2024

Autumn Budget 2024In the first Budget speech delivered by a female Chancellor, Rachel Reeves set out proposals to raise £40bn in taxes. The key changes / announcements made on 30 October 2024 are discussed below.Personal taxes Abolition of the remittance basis from 6 April 2025 As expected, the Chancellor confirmed that the remittance basis will be abolished from 6 April 2025 and replaced with the foreign income and gains regime (FIG regime). As well as publishing a detailed technical paper, 103 pages of draft legislation for Finance Bill 2025 was also released. In summary: 鈥he four-year FIG regime will be implemented, meaning that individuals in their first four years of UK tax residence will pay no UK tax on foreign income and gains arising in those tax years (including distributions from offshore trusts, but subject to the exceptions listed in paras 37鈥�38 of the technical paper) as long as they had not been UK resident in the 10 years prior to their arrival. To benefit from the FIG regime, the individual will need to make a claim each tax year and can claim the exemption in relation to income, gains or both. Note that claiming the FIG regime means that the individual will lose the personal allowance and annual exempt amount. No relief is available for foreign income losses and foreign capital losses in the years in which the FIG regime is claimed 鈥verseas workday relief (OWR) will be extended to four years from three years and