Vialto UK Autumn Budget Guide 2025
Vialto highlight the key announcements from the UK Autumn Budget 2025 most relevant to employers and internationally mobile employees.
27 November 2025
Martin Muhleder, Tax Partner at Vialto Partners:
“While the Government has avoided an overt income tax hike for now, it has heaped a new level of complexity onto the UK’s tax system, through a smorgasbord of stealth taxes. In practice, not only will these policies be very hard to implement, but they will also negatively impact business confidence and further depress domestic economic activity. They will also create scenarios where individuals who are in near identical financial positions will end up in very different tax rates. Creating this disparity is not good for the long-term fairness of the UK tax system" "At a time when the Government should be encouraging and fostering growth, through a series of flip-flops and backpedaling, it may just succeed at achieving the opposite effect. Employers should feel confident operating in the UK; adding more complexity and red tape to the system won't help this systemic issue."Key Takeaways:
- Freeze in income tax thresholds for another three years from 2028-29 to 2030-31
- Increased income tax rates on dividend, property, and savings income
- National insurance on salary-sacrificed pension contributions
- No Class 2 NIC for people living abroad
- Council tax surcharge on properties valued over £2 million
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