This measure was introduced by Liz Truss, it seems to have been shelved.

The government is changing the definition of a 'small' company by increasing the employee number threshold from 50 to 500 employees. This change will bring some 40,000 businesses within the definition of 'small' and will have some considerable implications across accounting, tax, investor reliefs and grants.

The Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, has announced that the 45% Income Tax top tax rate will remain in place from next April. Interviewed on BBC Radio 4 on Monday morning, he admitted that his uncosted mini-budget proposal had become "a massive distraction".

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It has been a week of economic turmoil following last Friday’s mini-budget. We have summaries of the key measures announced in case you missed our Budget Special edition, as well as plenty of non-budget content including a new Employer update for 2022-23, HMRC’s latest Agent update and some interesting tax cases.

The Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, has presented his mini-budget and 'The Growth Plan 2022' announcing major reversals to a large chunk of his predecessor's tax policies. Together with a package of tax cuts, these would have greatly benefit owner-managed businesses but almost all were reversed on 17 October 2022.

Live highlights of announcements made in the Mini-Budget 2022, held on 23 September 2022 by Kwasi Kwarteng, Chancellor of the Exchequer.