VCTs/ISAs/Pensions: Five areas to watch in this week's Budget

Stamp duty reform? Raid on pensions?

Tilney's Jason Hollands picks out five areas to keep an eye on when Chancellor Philip Hammond stands up to give his first Autumn Budget on Wednesday.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond, goes into this Wednesday's Budget with an unenviable hand. The government has a wafer-thin majority in parliament and has been racked by two Cabinet resignations in recent weeks. There is open revolt on the Tory backbenches and hardcore Brexiteers are gunning for the Chancellor. Meanwhile, Brexit negotiations with the EU appear to have hit an impasse and the economy, which proved so resilient in the aftermath of the EU referendum as consumers kept on spending, is facing headwinds as wage growth lags inflation. This has piled on the pressure ...