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Many business owners and farmers have already taken steps to mitigate the impact of changes to the inheritance tax (IHT) business and agricultural property reliefs (BPR and APR) that came into effect on 6 April 2026.
Many of the headline reforms being introduced by the Employment Rights Act 2025 will not land until 2027, but employers need to be aware of the new day one rights which employees are entitled to from 6 April 2026.
Making Tax Digital (MTD) starts on 6 April 2026 for self-employed individuals and landlords with qualifying annual income over £50,000. There are a number of issues to bear in mind.
A relaxation to the qualifying limits will mean that scale-up companies, not just start-ups, will be able to offer enterprise management incentives (EMI) taxadvantaged share options to employees from 6 April 2026.
The inheritance tax (IHT) agricultural relief U-turns that came out before Christmas have been well publicised, but the changes apply equally to business relief.
The government will curtail the tax advantages of salary sacrifice arrangements involving employer pension contributions from April 2029, and only for contributions above £2,000 per year.
The November 2025 Budget contained several measures to boost AI adoption and support British science and technology companies to ‘start-up, scale-up and stay in the UK’.
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