Your Guide to Spring Budget 2024
Taxes
• National insurance contributions cut from 10% to 8% for employees.
• Self-employed national insurance rates cut from 8% to 6%.
• Higher rate of property capital gains tax will be reduced from 28% to 24%.
• Abolishment of the ‘non-dom’ tax status. A simpler residency-based system will be introduced in 2025.
• Abolishment of the Multiple Dwellings Relief.
• Abolishment of the Furnished Holiday Lettings Regime.
• One off air passenger duty for non-economy plane passengers.
• Windfall tax on UK-produced oil and gas extended to 2029.
Benefits
• High income child benefit charge to be moved to a household-based system by April 2026, with the threshold raised to £60,000 and the top of the taper raised to £80,000 from 6th April 2024.
• Household support fund extended for a further six months.
• Abolishment of the £90 charge for a debt relief order.
• Increase in repayment periods to 24 months for new budgeting advance loans for people on low incomes.
• Introduction of a new British ISA allowing an additional £5,000 of investments in UK equity on top of the £20,000 annual ISA allowance.
• Introduction of a new British savings bond through NS&I offering a guaranteed fixed rate of 3 years.
Duty
• Duty to be introduced on vaping liquids in October 2026.
• One off increase in tobacco duty to be made in October 2026.
• Alcohol duty freeze is extended until February 2025.
• Fuel duty of a 5p cut remains in place. Business Support
• Eligible film studios in England will secure 40% relief on their gross business rates until 2034.
• Tax reliefs made permanent at 45% for touring and orchestral productions and 40% for non-touring productions.
Investment zones
• Increase £200m of funding to extend the Recovery Loan Scheme as it transitions to the Growth Guarantee Scheme.
• VAT registration threshold increase to £90,000 from £85,000 on 1st April 2024.
• £100m of ‘levelling up’ funding to support cultural projects.
• £5m allocation to renovate hundreds of local village halls across England.
• £242m of investments in Barking Riverside and Canary Wharf where nearly 8,000 homes will be built.
• Introduction of a new £20m community-led housing scheme supporting local communities to deliver the developments they want and need.
• £10m to be invested in Cambridge in the coming year to unlock delivery of crucial local transport and health infrastructure.
• The Treasury will help fund the renovation of Theatr Clywd in Mold.
• £160m deal with Hitachi to purchase the Wylfa site in Ynys Mon and the Oldbury site in South Gloucestershire. Renewable energy
• Great British Nuclear will begin the next phase of the small modular reactor selection process with companies having until June 2024 to submit their initial responses.
• Up to £120m will be allocated to the green industry growth accelerator to build supply chains for new technology ranging from offshore wind to carbon capture and storage by January 2025.
A&D industry
• £270m of investment will be allocated into innovative new automotive and aerospace R&D projects, building the UK capabilities in zero emission vehicle and clean Aviation Technologies.
Creative industries
• Rate of tax credit increase by 5%.
• Removal of the 80% cap for visual effects costs in the audio-visual expenditure credit.
• Eligible film studios in England will benefit from a 40% relief on their gross business rates until 2034.
• Introduction of a new tax credit for UK independent films with a budget of less than £50m.
• £26m of funding was allocated to the National Theatre to upgrade its stages.
• The tax release announced in the autumn statement has been made permanent at 45% for tutorial orchestral productions and 40% for non-touring productions.
Health
• An additional £2.5bn allowance to tackle issues such as waiting lists and including out of date IT systems.
• £45m in funding was announced to support research by medical charities into diseases such as cancer, dementia and epilepsy including £3m for Cancer Research UK.
• £650m for AstraZenica to fund the building of a vaccine manufacturing hub in Speke, Liverpool.
Police and court services
• £75m to roll out more violence reduction units and hot spot policing in England and Wales.
• A further £230m will be spent on technology allowing people to report crimes via video call and for drones to be used as first responders.
• £170m will be allocated to fund noncourt resolutions in order to reduce reoffending and digitise the court process.
Care and education provisions
• £165m was announced over the next four years to increase the capacity of the children homes estate.
• £105m was also allocated over the next four years to build 15 new special free schools to create additional high-quality places and increase choice for parents.
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