- Version 2018.1 incorporates tax and other changes made for the financial year 2017-18. All calculators and tables have been updated and modified where appropriate.
- We have new material: Leading Citations, a nutshell accompaniment to Leading Cases, which succinctly sets out the basic principles which have emerged in the 16 years since White.
- The life expectancy table used as the basis of the Duxbury calculator continues to be ONS14, for the reasons set out within that module. As in the last 8 years, the calculator again contains a short-term 'quantitative easing' adjustment to the assumptions to reflect continuing constraints in financial markets. The rationale for this is also described on the Information screen in the Duxbury Calculations module.
- New Car Data no longer appears – the editors felt the amount of up-to-date and readily accessible price data available has rendered it redundant.
A full list of the updated calculating modules is below:
Time Costs/ | Prices Indexes | RPI |
Children/ | School Fees |
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| Child Support/ | 2008 Regime
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| Tertiary Education Costs and Funding |
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Housing Costs/ | House Price Index
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Cars/ | Company Cars/ | Company Car Benefit
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(Self-)Employment/ | Gross Salary Calculator
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Shares & Savings/ | Financial Indexes/ | FTSE 100 Index
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| Stamp Duty |
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Pensions/ | Pensions Overview
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Lifetime Support/ | Duxbury Calculations
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Tax and National Insurance/ | Income and Capital Gains Tax
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Social Security Benefits/ | Universal Credit |
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Foreign Change/ | Exchange Rates
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