{"id":3262,"date":"2017-12-13T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my-brains.co.uk\/jackross\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T16:37:47","slug":"autumn-budget-2017-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my-brains.co.uk\/jackross\/autumn-budget-2017-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Budget 2017 round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A range of measures designed to boost business and productivity were announced in Autumn Budget 2017. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amid a background of discontent surrounding <strong>business rates<\/strong>, chancellor Philip Hammond revealed future increases will be determined by the Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation from April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The measure comes into effect two years earlier than originally planned and will replace the Retail Prices Index, which determined the controversial 3.9% rise announced in October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Adam Marshall, director-general at the British Chambers of Commerce, said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While more remains to be done to reduce the impact of business rates on investment and growth, the chancellor&#8217;s decisions will lessen the impact of rate rises on hard-pressed firms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corporation tax<\/strong> remains at 19% and is on track to be lowered to 17% by 2020, while the <strong>VAT<\/strong> thresholds remain unchanged for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Hammond also pledged to invest a further \u00a32.3 billion into<strong> R&amp;D<\/strong>, which sees an increase to its main tax credit \u2013 the Research and Development Expenditure Credit (RDEC) that applies to larger companies \u2013 from 1 January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Investment limits for<strong> enterprise investment schemes<\/strong> will be doubled \u2013 from \u00a31 million to \u00a32 million \u2013 from April 2018 for knowledge-intensive companies only.<\/p>\n<p>Employers will need to keep an eye on rises to the <strong>national living wage<\/strong> \u2013 up 4.4% from \u00a37.50 an hour in 2017\/18 to \u00a37.83 an hour for those aged over 25 in 2018\/19.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>national minimum wage<\/strong> rates will also increase for under-25s as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>apprentices: \u00a33.70 per hour<\/li>\n<li>16 and 17-year-olds: \u00a34.20 per hour<\/li>\n<li>18 to 20-year-olds: \u00a35.90 per hour<\/li>\n<li>21 to 24-year-olds: \u00a37.38 per hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tax-free <strong>personal allowance<\/strong> increases by \u00a3350 a year \u2013 up from \u00a311,500 in 2017\/18 to \u00a311,850, while the higher-rate threshold rises from \u00a345,000 to \u00a346,350 from 6 April 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Contact us to discuss your business option on either 0161 832 4451 or you can email us on <a href=\"mailto:info@jackross.co.uk\">info@jackross.co.uk<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A range of measures designed to boost business and productivity were announced in Autumn Budget 2017. Amid a background of discontent surrounding business rates, chancellor Philip Hammond revealed future increases will be determined by the Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation from April 2018. 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