{"id":3751,"date":"2018-10-29T17:40:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T17:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/summary-of-budget-2018-key-points-at-a-glance\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:40:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T17:40:49","slug":"summary-of-budget-2018-key-points-at-a-glance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/summary-of-budget-2018-key-points-at-a-glance\/","title":{"rendered":"Summary of Budget 2018: Key points at-a-glance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Chancellor in the House of Commons\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/F941\/production\/_104090836_parli.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">UK Parliament \/Jessica Taylor <\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Philip Hammond has delivered his third Budget as chancellor. Here are the key points of his 72-minute speech.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Personal taxation and wages<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">The personal allowance threshold, the rate at which people start paying income tax, to rise from \u00a311,850 to \u00a312,500 in April &#8211; a year earlier than planned<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">The higher rate income tax threshold to rise from \u00a346,350 to \u00a350,000 in April<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">After that, the two rates will rise in line with inflation<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">National Living Wage increasing by 4.9%, from \u00a37.83 to \u00a38.21 an hour, from April 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Alcohol, tobacco and fuel<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Beer, cider and spirits duties to be frozen<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Cost of a bottle of wine duty to rise by 8p, in line with inflation, in February <\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Tobacco duty will continue to rise by inflation plus 2%<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A packet of 20 cigarettes will go by 33p at 18.00 GMT<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Fuel duty to be frozen for ninth year in a row<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Remote Gaming Duty to increase to 21% for online gambling on &#8220;games of chance&#8221; from 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Stamp duty and housing<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">All first-time buyers purchasing shared equity homes of up to \u00a3500,000 to be exempt from stamp duty<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">\u00a3500m for the Housing Infrastructure Fund, designed to enable a further 650,000 homes to be built<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Lettings relief limited to properties where the owner is in shared occupancy with the tenant<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">New partnerships with housing associations in England to deliver 13,000 homes<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Guarantees of up to \u00a31bn for smaller house-builders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Welfare and pensions<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Work allowances for universal credit to be increased by \u00a31.7bn<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">2.4 million working families with children to benefit by \u00a3630 a year<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">An extra \u00a31bn to help welfare claimants transfer to new consolidated benefit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">The state of the economy<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Era of austerity is &#8220;finally coming to an end&#8221;, the chancellor says<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">2018 growth forecast downgraded to 1.3% from 1.5% in March, due to impact of bad Spring weather<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Forecasts raised slightly to 1.4%, 1.4%, 1.5% and 1.6% in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively. <\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">3.3 million more people in work since 2010 and 800,000 more jobs forecast by 2022.<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Wages growth at its highest in nearly a decade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">The state of the public finances<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Public borrowing in 2018 to be \u00a311.6bn lower than forecast in March, representing 1.2% of gross domestic product, (GDP) the total value of goods produced and services provided<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Borrowing as a share of GDP to rise to 1.4% next year<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Borrowing to total \u00a331.8bn, \u00a326.7bn. \u00a323.8bn, \u00a320.8bn and \u00a319.8bn in next five years<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Debt as share of GDP peaked at 85.2% in 2016-17, falling to 83.7% this year and to 74.1% by 2023-24<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">1.2% annual average growth in departmental spending promised<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Brexit<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Extra \u00a3500m for preparations for leaving the EU<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Spring Statement next March could be upgraded to full Budget if needed<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A commemorative 50p coin to mark the UK&#8217;s departure from the EU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Defence and security<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">An extra \u00a3160m for counter-terrorism police<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">An extra \u00a31bn for armed forces, for cyber-capabilities and the UK&#8217;s new nuclear submarine programme<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">\u00a310m for mental health care for veterans, to mark the centenary of World War One Armistice<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">\u00a31.7m in Holocaust education programmes to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, in northern Germany<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Business and digital<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">New digital services tax on UK revenues of big technology companies, from April 2020<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Profitable companies with global sales of more than \u00a3500m will be eligible<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Private finance initiative (PFI) contracts to be abolished in future<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">New centre of excellence to manage existing deals &#8220;in the taxpayer&#8217;s interest&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Annual investment allowance to be increased from \u00a3200,000 to \u00a31m for two years<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Contribution of small companies to apprenticeship levy to be reduced from 10% to 5%<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Business rates bill for companies with a rateable value of \u00a351,000 or less to be cut by third over two years<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Measure to benefit 90% of independent companies, cutting bill by \u00a38,000<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">\u00a3900m in business rates relief for small businesses and \u00a3650m to rejuvenate High Streets<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">New mandatory business rates relief for all lavatories made available for public use, whether publicly or privately owned<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Extending changes to the way self-employment status is taxed, from the public sector to medium and large private companies, from 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Education and health (England only)<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Confirmation of an extra \u00a320.5bn for the NHS over the next five years<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A minimum extra \u00a32bn a year for mental health services<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">New mental health crisis centre, providing support in every accident and emergency unit in the country <\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">An extra \u00a3700m for councils, for care for the elderly and those with disabilities<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">\u00a310m for air ambulances<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A one-off \u00a3400m &#8220;bonus&#8221; to help schools buy &#8220;the little extras they need&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Transport, infrastructure and culture<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A \u00a330bn package for England&#8217;s roads, including repairs to motorways and potholes<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A 30% growth in infrastructure spending<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Opening the use of e-passport gates at airports &#8211; currently available to people from Europe &#8211; to those from the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Japan<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Air Passenger Duty to be indexed in line with inflation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Environment and energy<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Science Photo Library<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A new tax on non-recycled plastic packaging<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">No tax on takeaway coffee cups but to be reconsidered if the industry doesn&#8217;t make enough progress<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">\u00a360m for planting trees in England<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">\u00a310m to deal with abandoned waste sites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Nations and regions<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">An additional \u00a3950m for the Scottish government, \u00a3550m for the Welsh government and \u00a3320m for a Northern Ireland Executive in the period to 2020-21<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">New City and Growth deals for Belfast, north Wales and the Tay Cities area, which includes the cities of Dundee and Perth as well as Angus and the north part of Fife, <\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">\u00a32m for Belfast to help recover from Primark fire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-46017125\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright UK Parliament \/Jessica Taylor Philip Hammond has delivered his third Budget as chancellor. Here are the key points of his 72-minute speech. Personal taxation and wages The personal allowance threshold, the rate at which people start paying income tax, to rise from \u00a311,850 to \u00a312,500 in April &#8211; a year earlier than planned &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}