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MARTIN Lewis has revealed respective "hidden" changes from Rachel Reeves' Autumn Budget and shared his views connected the matter.
Rachel Reeves presented her fiscal blueprint for the upcoming twelvemonth yesterday, featuring a simplification successful pub brew prices alongside increases successful the minimum wage, state pension and benefits.
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Elsewhere, raids on inheritance tax mean that bereaved families volition person to wage taxation connected their deceased loved ones' pensions.
These headline-grabbing announcements person dominated caller news, but Martin Lewis has shed airy connected respective lesser-known changes successful the Budget documents that warrant everyone's attention.
Among the cardinal issues helium addressed were adjustments to stamp duty, the contentious child benefit rule, and forthcoming alterations to the Help to Save strategy for those connected Universal Credit.
The laminitis of MoneySavingExpert.com besides highlighted respective issues that were not addressed successful the Chancellor's plans yesterday.
Here's what you whitethorn person missed...
CHILD BENEFIT
The authorities volition not proceed with the betterment to basal the high-income payment complaint (HICBC) connected household incomes.
Martin said: "Currently, if you gain implicit £60,000, you commencement to suffer kid benefit, past you suffer it wholly astatine at £80,000.
"Last twelvemonth it was £50,000 and £60,000 truthful they enactment the threshold up.
"However, that was a impermanent move, truthful the authorities could alteration kid payment eligibility truthful that it is based connected a household income alternatively of idiosyncratic income."
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At the moment, kid payment begins being withdrawn erstwhile 1 genitor earns implicit £60,000 a year.
This means 2 parents earning £59,000 a twelvemonth - totalling £118,000 successful the household - each person the payment successful full.
Whereas a household earning a batch little than that does not get the afloat outgo if conscionable 1 of the parents earns implicit £60,000.
Martin added: "The committedness was to displacement eligibility to household income, but buried successful the papers, they volition not bash that.
"So they volition instrumentality to an idiosyncratic income appraisal for kid benefit."
This is due to the fact that it would person travel astatine a important fiscal outgo of £1.4 cardinal by 2029-30 if mounting the threshold to £120,000-£160,000, wherever nary families would suffer out.
You tin work much astir the taxation here.
STAMP DUTY
Martin said: "What was announced is that stamp work is to emergence for radical buying 2nd homes.
"However, what wasn't said is that the impermanent summation successful the stamp work thresholds, which is acceptable to expire next April, could person been extended by the Chancellor but wasn't."
"However, she hasn't extended it. So, successful existent terms, stamp work is going up adjacent April."
As a result, from April 2025, a first-time purchaser purchasing a spot valued astatine £425,000 volition incur a stamp duty charge of £6,250.
Stamp work is 1 of the further upfront costs that purchasers whitethorn incur erstwhile buying a property.
Currently, first-time buyers are exempt from paying stamp work connected properties priced up to £425,000.
If a spot is much expensive, they lone pay tax at 5% connected the information supra £425,000 and up to £625,000.
The little bounds for first-time purchaser stamp work exemption was temporarily accrued backmost successful 2022 from £300,000 to £450,000.
The maximum worth of a spot connected which first-time buyers' alleviation besides roseate from £500,000 to £625,000.
Similarly, the threshold astatine which each different buyers statesman to wage stamp work was raised from £125,000 to £250,000.
However, these thresholds volition present revert to their erstwhile levels from April 2025.
It's a immense stroke for each location buyers and means they person conscionable months near to get a merchantability crossed the enactment earlier the thresholds astatine which stamp work becomes payable fall.
What is stamp duty?
STAMP work onshore taxation (SDLT) is simply a lump sum outgo anyone buying a spot oregon portion of onshore implicit a definite terms has to pay.
You wage the taxation erstwhile you:
- Buy a freehold property
- Buy a caller oregon existing leasehold
- Buy a spot done a shared ownership scheme
- Land is transferred to you oregon spot successful speech for payment, for example, you instrumentality connected a mortgage or bargain a stock successful a house
The complaint you wage depends connected the terms and type of property and definite thresholds.
If you are a first-time buyer no stamp work is owed if the spot is worthy £425,000 oregon less.
You'll besides get a discount if the acquisition terms is £625,000 oregon little and volition lone wage 5% SDLT connected the information from £425,001 to £625,000.
Those who aren't first-time buyers volition wage antithetic rates depending connected the worth of their caller home:
- If it's up to £250,000 - nary stamp work is paid
- For the adjacent £675,000 (the information from £250,001 to £925,000) - stamp work is charged astatine 5%
- For the adjacent £575,000 (the information from £925,001 to £1.5million) - stamp work is charged astatine 10%
- For the remaining magnitude (the information supra £1.5million) - stamp work is charged astatine 12%
For example, if you are buying a location worthy £300,000 you would wage stamp work astatine a 5% complaint connected the £50,000 - £2,500.
You'll usually person to wage 5% connected apical of SDLT rates if buying a caller residential spot means you’ll ain much than one.
HELP TO SAVE
Martin said: "We besides had a announcement successful the Budget documents astir Help to Save - which is the savings program for radical connected Universal Credit."
The strategy offers little earners a savings relationship wherever they tin prevention a maximum of £50 a period for 4 years and person a 50% authorities boost astatine the extremity of twelvemonth 2 and twelvemonth four.
The authorities volition extend the existent Help to Save scheme until April 5, 2027.
However, the Budget documents besides authorities that the authorities volition widen Help to Save to each Universal Credit claimants that work.
Are determination immoderate escaped currency schemes if I'm struggling?
MANY of america are inactive struggling with the precocious outgo of surviving - but there's assistance you tin get.
New oregon expectant parents tin get up to £442 a twelvemonth to walk connected nutrient through Healthy Start scheme.
Some caller parents tin get £500 via the Sure Start Maternity Grant. The wealth is designed to assistance you screen the costs of having a child.
Councils besides connection enactment done the payment assistance schemes, to assistance screen the costs of essentials, from buying caller furnishings to nutrient vouchers.
The magnitude you tin get varies but an probe by The Sun recovered that hard-up Brits tin use for assistance worthy up to £1,000.
Discretionary Housing Payment is a cookware of wealth handed retired by councils to those struggling to support a extortion implicit their heads.
A strategy is disposable for those who find themselves incapable to screen lodging costs, though the nonstop magnitude varies arsenic each section authorization dishes retired the currency connected a case-by-case basis.
Many vigor forms connection grants to assistance cash-tight customers. The nonstop magnitude varies depending connected your supplier and you circumstances, but could beryllium arsenic overmuch a £2,000.
MISSED ANNOUNCEMENTS
However, Martin Lewis highlighted respective issues that were not included successful the Autumn Statement oregon the Budget documents.
He said: "Things I was hoping would alteration but haven't…
"Lifetime ISAs - the occupation that galore young radical who've saved into a LISA to bargain their archetypal location person is that they're priced retired due to the fact that it has to beryllium a archetypal location worthy nether £450,000.
"And to get money retired of LISA, if you're not buying it for a qualifying archetypal home, you person to wage an effectual good of 6.25% to the government.
"I was hoping they would alteration the rules truthful that you wouldn't person to wage a good if you instrumentality your wealth retired of a LISA."
"Plus, nary quality connected owe prisoners, nary quality connected pupil attraction loans going up, nary quality connected WASPI compensation either, truthful rather a fewer things that I was hoping for that aren't successful the Budget."
BRITAIN’S MOST MEMORABLE BUDGETS
Today is the archetypal Labour fund for 14 years - and the archetypal ever to beryllium delivered by a pistillate Chancellor.
Brits are bracing for a raft of taxation hikes arsenic Rachel Reeves tries to plug the "£22billion achromatic hole" she says she's recovered successful authorities accounts.
Here are 5 different budgets which person caused a disturbance implicit the years.
1979 - Geoffrey Howe, Conservative
Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor Geoffrey Howe slashed some the apical complaint of income taxation and the modular rate.
He besides doubled VAT - shifting the taxation load from income to depletion successful a immense alteration for Brits.
Howe besides eased controls connected overseas speech successful a bid to power inflation.
The fund signalled a monolithic interruption from the past Labour authorities and acceptable the signifier for decades to come.
1988 - Nigel Lawson, Conservative
Nigel Lawson (dad to home goddess Nigella) massively slashed income taxation again.
The lawman Commons talker doubly cleared the enclosure amid noisy protests from Labour MPs slamming the taxation cuts.
Lawson besides acceptable disconnected a spot bonanza by announcing an extremity to treble owe taxation alleviation for couples buying homes.
1993 - Norman Lamont, Conservative
In March 1993 the system was inactive reeling from Black Wednesday, erstwhile the lb crashed retired of the European speech complaint mechanism.
Lamont announced taxation rises including VAT connected home state and electricity.
Later that twelvemonth Lamont's successor Ken Clarke froze idiosyncratic taxation allowance and brought successful stealth taxes connected security and level passengers.
The Lamont and Clarke budgets marked the extremity of the Tories's scything taxation cuts - and acceptable the signifier for Labour's instrumentality to bureau successful 1997.
2002 - Gordon Brown, Labour
Brown raised nationalist security by a penny connected the lb to money higher spending connected the NHS.
The aboriginal PM had fretted implicit a imaginable backlash from voters who had re-elected Labour successful 2001.
But helium managed to propulsion disconnected the largest emergence successful wellness spending successful the past of the NHS.
2009 - Alistair Darling, Labour
Labour's past fund earlier contiguous came amid the recognition crunch and soaring unemployment.
Darling ramped up taxes and borrowing successful a bid to capable up draining Treasury coffers.
Tory person David Cameron blasted Labour's 'utter mess' - and was successful powerfulness a twelvemonth later.
2022 - Kwasi Kwarteng, Conservative
Kwarteng unveiled his economical bundle little than a period aft becoming Liz Truss's Chancellor.
Technically, it was a fiscal connection alternatively than a fund - but it turned retired to beryllium conscionable arsenic seismic.
Rising Tory prima Kwarteng announced £45billion successful taxation cuts including a driblet successful each rates of income tax.
Markets took frights and the lb went into freefall earlier the Bank of England waded successful to halt a tally connected UK pension funds.
Mortgage rates soared and Kwarteng was retired of the occupation conscionable 3 weeks later.
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