Well, the Spring Statement this week was uneventful (from an Estate Planning perspective at least) and that is a good thing!
For one, it means that the Labour Government, in this tiny respect at least, do seem to have kept a promise – when they were elected they committed to holding just one major fiscal event a year and they have held true to their word… for now.
The Spring Statement really ran as it was intended – we got an economic update, some revised forecasts and the usual ‘book cooking’ to make the country’s finances meet the Government’s own self-imposed rules ‘by the end of the parliament’.
