{"id":11621,"date":"2026-07-21T06:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=11621"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:43:03","slug":"burnham-cuts-taxes-on-energy-bills-to-ease-cost-of-living-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=11621","title":{"rendered":"Burnham cuts taxes on energy bills to ease cost-of-living burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Minister Andy Burnham pledged to offer families struggling with the cost of living more \u201cbreathing space\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On his second day as prime minister, Burnham vowed to support the \u201cpoorest households\u201d with the cuts, which will be funded by cancelling his predecessor\u2019s Digital ID programme and result in about \u00a345 of savings per year for a typical household, according to a statement from his Downing Street office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor too long, too many people have struggled with the cost of living,\u201d newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey said in a statement. \u201cToday\u2019s energy tax cut will give families some breathing room on bills, and provide some reassurance this winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 5% cut on VAT, or value added tax, on electricity bills is expected to cost\u202faround \u00a3850 million\u202fin 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>                        #Burnham #cuts #taxes #energy #bills #ease #costofliving #burden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister Andy Burnham pledged to offer families struggling with the cost of living more \u201cbreathing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1974,2443,12104,12680,842,1498,526,405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}