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AUTUMN STATEMENT 2012 George Osborne announced his November statement last week with particular interest being the further increase in personal allowances in excess of that proposed at the Spring 2012 budget which the opposition appear to have ignored in their criticism of the Chancellor’s Statement. He has now increased the basic personal allowance, the amount of income a person can receive before paying income tax by almost £3000 in three years against the previous administration’s £1500 increase in fifteen years thus significantly assisting the lower paid i.e. the people “New Labour” were supposed to be looking after. A welcome announcement for businesses is the increase in Annual Investment Allowance to £250k. Clearly the drop to £25k in April this year was a step too far and so now Mr Osbourne wants to encourage business to invest
in capital expenditure. We give a summary of the main items below that will be relevant to the majority of our readers
Personal Taxes • Personal allowances are to be increased by £1,335 to £9,440 which is £235 more than previously announced in the 2012 budget. This is expected to take 2.2 million people out of paying income tax altogether. • National Insurance rates remain at 9% for the self employed, 12% employees NIC and 13.8% employers NIC. • To cover the cost of the increase in personal allowance the basic rate band has been cut by £2,360 bringing many more people into the higher rate tax bracket which will begin on total earnings of £41,450. This will increase to £41,865 in 2014/15 and £42,285 on 2015/16.
• The additional tax rate for those earning over £150k is to drop in April 2013 from 50% to 45%. • Tax relief on pension contributions cut from maximum of £50,000 to £40,000 per annum or 100% of salary if lower and a restriction on relief on total lifetime contributions of £1.25m down from £1.5m.
Business Taxes • The biggest surprise of the whole statement is the increase of the Annual Investment Allowance (which means businesses can get 100% deduction in year one on qualifying plant and machinery purchases) to £250k from £25k. • A variety of funding for businesses was announced including £1.5bn of loans for companies looking to take on export contracts, an increase in the £2.5bn Business Growth Fund for
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