Sep 28, 2024
Winter fuel Payments. Who, what, why and WTAF Ed Parnell adlibs about the crisis facing Winter Fuel and Pensioners.
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Winter fuel Payments. Who, what, why and WTAF Ed Parnell adlibs about the crisis facing Winter Fuel and Pensioners.
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, is set to announce a series of tax cuts in the upcoming Autumn Statement. The aim is to boost economic growth and productivity in the face of a slowdown in GDP growth and rising inflation. Hunt will unveil measures to reduce taxes on businesses and individuals, including […]
UK Chancellor Announces Tax Cuts for Growth & Jobs #AutumnStatement #economicgrowth #Productivity #taxcuts #UKChancelloroftheExchequer
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, is set to announce a series of tax cuts in the upcoming Autumn Statement. The aim is to boost economic growth and productivity in the face of a slowdown in GDP growth and rising inflation. Hunt will unveil measures to reduce taxes on businesses and individuals, including […]
UK Chancellor Announces Tax Cuts for Growth & Jobs #AutumnStatement #economicgrowth #Productivity #taxcuts #UKChancelloroftheExchequer
Autumn Statement: Homes near new pylons get £1,000 off bills
Autumn Statement: Homes near new pylons get £1,000 off bills #AutumnStatement #homes #offbills #£1000
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Jeremy Hunt mulls inheritance tax cuts in Autumn Statement
Jeremy Hunt mulls inheritance tax cuts in Autumn Statement #AutumnStatement #JeremyHunt #mullsinheritancetax #taxcuts
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Autumn Statement: The NHS is Failing, and the Government Has Finally Taken Note
This year’s Autumn Statement outlined ambitious plans to abolish the deficit, introduced a new tax on multinationals and also saw an overhaul of stamp duty. But one note was unforeseen and while generous, worrisome, as well.
It is no news that the NHS has been facing capacity challenges in the face of an aging population – just one week ago, the NHS reported a record 108,301 patients had been admitted for emergency treatment in just seven days.
Six months into the financial year, more than three-quarters of all acute hospitals have a net deficit of £714m, according to The Guardian. Hospitals are also failing to achieve the four-hour target in A&E departments and there has been a steady decline in overall patient care.
Liberal Democrat coalition partners lobbied Chancellor George Osborne last month to pledge £1.5bn to the NHS and Osborne responded by exceeding that demand in his Autumn Statement speech.
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Autumn Statement 2014, what does it mean for me?
Crowded into the meeting room, this lunch time we watched intently as the Chancellor George Osborne delivered his Autumn Statement. Now the excitement has died down, it’s time to take a step back and say, “it’s all well and good that stamp duty is being reformed and our economy is growing, but what does it actually mean for me?”
As a 22 year old recent graduate, my passion for politics is often met with surprise in social circles. I think I’m expected to be more interested in pop culture or gap years, and my response is always the same: you’re just as interested in politics as I am. A smirk often appears on the face of the listener as they proclaim they couldn’t care less, but the beauty about politics is that aside from the men in suits making decisions that seem irrelevant and insignificant to us, the reality is that it affects us all, every single day of our lives. It affects the bus we get on to work, how much we’re paid at work, whether we are actually in work, our rights at work, the time we take for lunch, everything. It’s almost impossible to think of an area that the political arm does not to extend to so it’s with great interest I watched this year’s Autumn Statement and with even greater interest that I questioned it's benefits for me.
Selfish, I know, but what does the Autumn Statement mean for me? Well, not a lot in all honesty. A rise in personal allowance I hear you cry, changes to stamp duty others suggest, but the reality of the situation is that as a 22 year old graduate, I’m probably not high on the Government’s priorities. The personal allowance increase will probably only be swallowed up by inflation and an increase in the rent my landlord charges and as for stamp duty, I dream about the day I could even contemplate affording a house in London, let alone considering the rates that govern it. So I’m back at my desk, working in a full time job, paying my tax, repaying my student loan, aspiring to be a home owner after an Autumn Statement that won’t really have much of an impact on me. And it’s kind of disheartening. I worked hard at uni, I was thrilled to receive the job offer I did, and now I work each day influencing and meeting the people over the road that were just in the chamber outlining how rosy the picture is. But the truth is that for a graduate like me living in Central London, paying extortionate rent and ever increasing living costs, this afternoon hasn’t really changed much. I’m not one of the banks affected by tax changes, not one of the businesses benefitting from investment and not one of the homeowners enjoying as of midnight the changes in stamp duty. Back to work then. Back to reality. Back to defending the irony that politics affects everything and sometimes nothing.