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This week’s update examines UK Budget proposals affecting rental and savings income, pension death benefits and business disposals, including considerations for those planning a move abroad.

We explore Alphabet’s AI investment and share-price decline, the wider market response and the role of currency movements in retirement income. Elsewhere, Canada raises interest rates, France’s Budget debate continues following separate votes on exit-tax proposals, Malta proposes a higher pension-income exemption and Belgium confirms November tax filing deadlines.

Updated using information available by 12:00 GMT on 3 November 2026. Later developments may have occurred.

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