{"id":6891,"date":"2022-11-17T10:43:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newbycastleman.co.uk\/?p=6891"},"modified":"2023-03-15T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T10:48:51","slug":"autumn-statement-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newbycastleman.co.uk\/industry-news\/autumn-statement-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Statement 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/span> 4<\/span> minutes to read<\/span><\/span>

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn Statement on 17 November 2022, against a backdrop of record inflation and market instability.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was a Budget of balance, with none of the usual “rabbit out of the hat” announcements. Instead, the emphasis was on financial stability, creating growth and protecting public services. Mr Hunt\u2019s message of the \u201cdifficult decisions\u201d needed by increasing taxes and reining in spending could not have been more sharply contrasted to the mini Budget delivered in September by his predecessor, Kwasi Kwarteng. The Chancellor repeated the need to bring inflation down, promote growth and restore fiscal stability to plug a \u00a355 billion black hole in the public finances.<\/p>\n

Context for the difficult financial background for this budget was underlined by the Office for Budget Responsibility, who confirmed global factors are the number one cause of economic instability, and the International Monetary Fund also predicts that one third of the world\u2019s economies will be in recession this year or next.<\/p>\n

The Chancellor hopes the announcements in the Autumn Statement will lead to a shallower recession and reduce inflation from earlier predictions.<\/p>\n

Personal taxes will rise across the board through the freezing or reduction of tax rate thresholds and allowances. Whilst the pension triple lock has been maintained, the increase in pensions coupled with the freezing of the personal allowance and reduction in the dividend and capital gains tax allowances runs the risk of bringing more individuals into the realm of self-assessment. Recent policy appeared to try and reduce pressure on HMRC by removing taxpayers with minimal untaxed income and gains from the self-assessment system, so how HMRC copes with a potential expansion of their workload will be watched with interest.<\/p>\n

Measures affecting individuals<\/strong><\/p>\n