Autumn Statement: When is it and how will it affect me?

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By Michael Race

Business reporter, BBC News

The authorities is acceptable to denote tens of billions of pounds worthy of spending cuts and taxation rises.

The Autumn Statement volition impact the take-home wage and household budgets of millions of people, arsenic good arsenic wealth for cardinal nationalist services.

When is the Autumn Statement?

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt volition present the connection to MPs connected Thursday 17 November. The timing is inactive to beryllium confirmed, but it usually happens astatine lunchtime.

It had been expected connected 31 October. However, Mr Hunt postponed it aft taking implicit from Kwasi Kwarteng.

Why is the Autumn Statement important?

The UK's system faces a fig of large challenges.

The outgo of surviving is soaring. Inflation - the complaint prices are expanding by - rose by 10.1% successful September.

The Autumn Statement besides takes spot little than 8 weeks aft the tax-cutting mini-budget. That saw the lb tumble against the dollar, government borrowing costs soar and the Bank of England marque an exigency intervention.

Mr Hunt has already reversed overmuch of Mr Kwarteng's mini-budget, but is looking to spell further successful bid to chopped the UK's debt.

"Decisions of eye-watering difficulty" prevarication ahead, Mr Hunt has warned.

Mr Hunt argues taxation rises are indispensable to assistance tackle inflation. The authorities besides wants to amusement fiscal markets that it is responsible.

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Mr Hunt has mostly reversed the policies acceptable retired by his predecessor successful September

Some experts judge the nationalist finances person a alleged "black hole" of around £55bn. This could beryllium filled done taxation rises and spending cuts.

However, immoderate economists argue the achromatic spread could really disappear if authorities debts were calculated differently.

Others suggest determination is simply a hazard that the government could deepen the recession by going excessively far and excessively fast.

What could beryllium successful the Autumn Statement?

Spending cuts of astir £35bn and plans to rise £20bn successful taxation implicit the coming years are expected.

There has been speculation that the authorities mightiness people income tax.

For example, it could determine to frost the magnitude radical tin gain earlier they person to wage a higher complaint of tax.

At present, radical wage 40% income taxation connected net above £50,270 (the complaint is antithetic successful Scotland). If it kept this level for respective years - alternatively of expanding it successful enactment with ostentation - much radical would go higher complaint taxation payers.

An announcement is apt connected whether benefits and pensions volition emergence successful enactment with inflation.

Under the alleged "triple lock", the authorities pension is expected to emergence each year by the highest retired of ostentation (as measured by CPI), mean earnings, oregon 2.5%.

The erstwhile premier minister, Liz Truss, said pensions would support up with rising prices, but Rishi Sunak has not confirmed this.

The chancellor volition acceptable retired details astir further assistance for those struggling with vigor bills.

However, helium has warned determination volition beryllium limits connected help. The existent energy terms guarantee ends successful April.

These person accrued dramatically pursuing the crisp emergence successful lipid and state prices.

The headdress would mean radical nary longer wage much than £86,000 towards attraction during their lifetime. It is owed to travel into effect successful October 2023.

The authorities is expected to denote billions of pounds worthy of cuts to nationalist spending.

This could impact services including the NHS, schools and the police.

Will the Autumn Statement impact each of the UK?

Some of the Autumn Statement volition impact the full of the UK.

However, the governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland besides marque immoderate taxation and spending decisions independently. (Although Northern Ireland doesn't presently person a functioning executive).

Scotland's concern caput has unveiled £615m worthy of spending cuts, connected apical of £560m of cuts announced successful September.

If the Westminster authorities announces other spending for England, the other nations get an equivalent other sum of money.

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