Global Market Commentary – April 2025
April 2025 was a historic month for stock markets, which declined rapidly upon President Trump’s announcement of huge international trade tariffs, then rose almost as quickly when he reined back on them.
April 2025 was a historic month for stock markets, which declined rapidly upon President Trump’s announcement of huge international trade tariffs, then rose almost as quickly when he reined back on them.
Our Spring newsletter focusses on the implications from the Chancellors Autumn budget and looks at the changes to Tax from April 2025. We also highlight our Tax Investigation Protection Service. In addition to shining a spotlight on our Apprentices, we find out more about our two new Associates and say, 'arrivederci' to two long serving member of the Team here in Berwick.
Changes to Employee Protection under the Worker Protection Act 2023
The meaning of the Italian word Arrivederci is ‘goodbye, until we meet again’. Since Greaves West & Ayre opened our doors in 1918 we have said goodbye to some long standing members of the team. We started 2025 by saying a fond farewell to two key members of GWA -
Derek Simpson and Brian Tait
Spotlight on -
Changes to Tax from April 2025
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Each year we support National Apprenticeship Week #NAW2025 that takes place in February. As part of this, we caught up with Richard Ayre and Roseanne Bennett, both Partners and training leads at Greaves West & Ayre.
The mood among institutional investors has deteriorated in recent weeks, due to US-centric concerns. Trade tariffs, sticky inflation and slowing growth are the dominant topics of conversation.
We need your accounts records and personal tax information.
Yesterday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Spring Statement. We have sifted through the details and hope the following review, which we feel will be the most significant to our clients, will be helpful.