Well that was all rather uneventful. This time two weeks ago, the Autumn Statement was looking completely benign from a personal finance point of view. Yes, there was some degree of speculation that we would see some modest tinkering with personal taxes, but there was certainly nothing of any significance to speak of in the rumour mill.
Then on Thursday evening, the big one dropped – there were (apparently) discussions around reducing, or even abolishing, IHT.
Personally I always thought this unlikely, but the rumour mill seemed to go into overdrive at the weekend and I was starting to doubt myself – could they do it? Would they do it?
After all the drama of the weekend and the prospect of a really rather exciting Autumn Statement, it ended up being… rather benign really – just like the original predictions.
