What the Budget means for your money

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Hunt also announced a 2p cut for self-employed people, with the main rate of NICs for the self-employed falling from 8 per cent to 6 per cent.
59% : But tax experts said that because the chancellor did not unfreeze the personal tax thresholds, the cut would not have that much impact on people's personal finances.
49% : The government has frozen several allowances and tax thresholds since April 2022 and plans to keep them unchanged until 2028.
47% : Hunt said he would also reduce the higher rate of capital gains tax on residential property from 28 per cent to 24 per cent because the measure would raise revenue by stimulating more transactions.
45% : At last year's Autumn Statement, the Office for Budget Responsibility, the independent fiscal watchdog, projected this measure alone would raise an extra £44.6bn in annual tax revenues by 2028-29.
43% : Air passenger duty will be increased for non-economy travel.
40% : With a general election looming, chancellor Jeremy Hunt was under pressure to deliver sweeteners for voters, notably what he described as "helping families with permanent cuts in taxation", without appearing fiscally irresponsible.
39% : Victoria Price, managing director at Alvarez & Marsal Tax, said: "Politically, the chancellor needed to cut something.

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