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17 announcements from John Healey's first Autumn Budget under Andy Burnham

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    -52% Medium Left

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65% : Income tax Income tax receipts will go to mayors for the first time in a generation, Mr Healey has announced.
59% : The chancellor says: "Our world-leading banks make a huge contribution to this country, In the tax they pay.
58% : New trading allowance Mr Healey has announced a new trading allowance, raising the amount people can earn from a new venture tax-free from £1,000 to £3,000.
56% : " Below are all the main announcements from Mr Healey's fiscal statement and Budget in the House of Commons today: £100 energy payment for A to D council tax bands Mr Healey said: "I know that with the conflict in the Middle East, rising energy bills are a real worry.
56% : National minimum wage and living wage hikes National minimum wage and national living wage is to be increased by 3.9%, Mr Healey said.
56% : This includes giving the tax office funding "to improve compliance, and stronger powers to collect overdue tax from those who can clearly afford to pay, but ignore repeated contact".
55% : "So today I'm taking one further step: this winter for 20 million households in council tax bands A to D, I'm announcing a £100 energy payment for households.
55% : " Capital gains tax Healey said he is providing support means raising some tax and he has done so in a "balanced way".
55% : Mr Healey announced that tax rates on income from property and savings would rise by a further two percentage points from April 2027.
53% : " Bank tax The chancellor confirmede will be raising the tax surcharge on banks.
53% : The chancellor said he is reducing the threshold for business asset disposal relief in capital gains tax from £1m to £500,000, which will mean "no change for three in four claimants". Tax office powers "I have begun by making sure that people pay the tax they owe, when they owe it, and closing loopholes in our tax system," he says.
53% : In a radical escalation of the Government's devolution agenda, Mr Healey said: "The most radical act of decentralisation in a generation, the devolution of tax revenues.
51% : Mr Healey said: "When it comes to welfare, the last Conservative government left a broken system which we are changing.
50% : Mr Healey made a commitment to meet the fiscal rules that day-to-day spending must be covered by tax receipts (stability rule) and that debt must be falling as a percentage of GDP (investment rule), with the budget deficit to be eliminated within three years.
50% : Tax cut on 100 supermarket products He also confirmed tariffs on over 100 supermarket products suspended to reduce prices.
50% : Healey says he is also reforming the administration of self-assessment income tax, bringing those affected in line with the majority so they make "smaller, more regular payments instead of facing larger bills that are harder to pay".
48% : Healey says: "I will not go ahead with the cut to the tax-free amount that people can put into a cash ISA. "The limit will stay at £20,000 per year, tax-free, for people of all ages.
47% : He said they will be faced with a levy of 3% from January, for 15 months.
46% : Reeves' plan to cut tax-free cash ISA allowance axed Mr Healey confirmed he will not carry out a plan announced by his predecessor, Rachel Reeves.
45% : As the Prime Minister and I have both said, we will bring down the welfare bill, and we will do it in a Labour way."
42% : " DWP cuts Healey has said he will cut the welfare bill but "in a Labour way".
41% : He said that this will be paid for "raising taxes on gambling".
35% : The chancellor says the war in the Middle East is still driving high fuel prices and that's why the government is extending those tax cuts for motorists through the winter and spring.

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