Autumn Budget 2024: Working people debate a ‘terrible illusion’, former Bank of England governor says October 27, 2024 Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to increase taxes significantly in Wednesday's Budget, with reports indicating that she will raise £20bn by hiking employers' national insurance.
Starmer: People who receive income from shares aren’t working people October 25, 2024 Sir Keir Starmer has said that people who get additional income from shares or other assets do not count as 'working people'.
Budget: Labour grandee warns pension tax hike rumours are ‘very worrying’ October 25, 2024 Rumours over a hike in employer national insurance contributions on pensions in next week’s Budget have been described as “very worrying” by Labour grandee David Blunkett. Blunkett, who served in Tony Blair’s cabinet as home secretary and secretary of state for work and pensions, said he would “advise strongly against” the changes in a letter [...]
Reeves planning national insurance on employer pension contributions, as workers spared October 23, 2024 The move would raise £15.4bn, which would go a long way to filling the £40bn which Reeves hopes to raise through a combination of tax rises and spending cuts.
Jeremy Hunt: Upping employer NI would be an ‘absolute disaster’ for economy October 22, 2024 Increasing employer national insurance contributions in the Budget would be an “absolute disaster” for Britain economically, Jeremy Hunt has warned. “I’m really worried that Labour is going to trash an economy, which has better growth prospects than it has for many years,” the shadow Chancellor told the Financial Times in an interview. On the prospect [...]
Autumn Budget: Which taxes will Rachel Reeves hike? October 22, 2024 With the Autumn Budget set to be delivered in just a few days, speculation about which taxes Chancellor Rachel Reeves will opt to raise has reached fever pitch. On entering No 11 Downing Street, Reeves commissioned the Treasury to conduct a thorough spending audit, which she claimed unearthed a “fiscal black hole” of £22bn, paving [...]
When it comes to national insurance, the government is pulling a fast one October 16, 2024 One of the many problems the government has got itself into over tax rises that may or may not appear in the upcoming Budget is an oversimplification of where the cost of a certain tax falls. Ministers and their supporters talk about Capital Gains Tax as if it only lands on rich people selling off [...]
Employer National Insurance hike could risk jobs amid 95,0000 vacancies October 15, 2024 Increasing employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) could pose a risk to jobs amid some 95,000 vacancies across pubs and restaurants, a hospitality lobby group has warned. Data released from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) today revealed there are a “stubbornly high” 95,000 openings across the sector, including in venues, cafes and eateries. Hospitality UK [...]
National Insurance hike will be ‘difficult’ for businesses, warns CBI boss October 15, 2024 Increasing employers’ National Insurance contributions will make it “harder for businesses to create the jobs and the growth” needed to “help fund our public services”, the boss of one of the UK’s largest business groups has warned. Speaking a day after Keir Starmer refused to rule out hiking National Insurance contributions paid by businesses, Rain [...]
Ministers refuse to rule out hike to employer national insurance rate October 14, 2024 The Chancellor and business secretary have again refused to rule out a hike employers’ National Insurance (NI) contributions in the upcoming Budget when speaking on the sidelines of the government’s investment summit today. Speaking exclusively to Morning Wire on the question of whether Labour would increase employers’ NI, Jonathan Reynolds stressed: “I think the manifesto [...]