{"id":14444,"date":"2026-08-25T07:19:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=14444"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:19:57","slug":"burnham-hints-at-tax-rises-in-autumn-budget-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=14444","title":{"rendered":"Burnham hints at tax rises in Autumn Budget \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Andy Burnham: \u2018I won;\u2019t be unrealistic\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Andy Burnham has hinted at tax rises in the Autumn Budget as he confronts the state of the public finances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">On his arrival in Downing Street, the\u00a0Prime Minister pledged to give people \u201cbreathing space\u201d and ease the cost of living. He has also announced VAT cuts and a review of business rates in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">However, he has admitted that fiscal pressures facing the UK mean tax rises could be on the cards to meet his support his spending commitments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI won\u2019t be unrealistic and people really need to understand that,\u201d he told reporters accompanying him in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are in a challenging position, whatever I do will be carefully thought through, it will be funded and there will be no more to come as we go into the Autumn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI will always take a careful approach to things. I ran Greater Manchester for 10 years and we ran a very tight ship with rock solid finances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, official figures revealed Government borrowing at \u00a31.8bn in July, which overshot market expectations. Analyst had predicted\u00a0there would be no difference between expenditure and receipts in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month a group of leading financial figures urged the Chancellor John Healey to engage properly with business before the Budget on 28 October and not to allow leaks that create instability.<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Burnham #hints #tax #rises #Autumn #Budget #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Burnham: \u2018I won;\u2019t be unrealistic\u2019 Andy Burnham has hinted at tax rises in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[20087,20088,20089,1548,12104,272,306,10556,2059,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444"}],"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=14444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}