Member Talk: Autumn Budget 2025 – What Private Client Lawyers Need to Know

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What changed in the Autumn Budget – and what does it mean for your clients?

In this bite-size video, our experts unpack the key measures from the Autumn Budget and their practical implications for private client practitioners. Topics include:

  • What was expected from the Budget vs. what actually emerged
  • Headline changes private client lawyers should prioritise when advising clients
  • The impact of frozen IHT thresholds on estates growing through property and investments
  • How the new £1m transferable Agricultural and Business Property Relief (APR/BPR) between spouses may reshape planning for family businesses and farms
  • A brief look at the new annual charge on high-value homes (mansion tax)

 

Speakers:

  • Stephen Pallister, Partner at Wiggin Osborne Fullerlove and member of the Law Society Tax Law Committee
  • Ed Powles, Private Client Partner, Maurice Turnor Gardner

This video was recorded 16 December 2025

This video is part of the Law Society’s Private Client Solicitors Section series.

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