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Issue 62
Liz Truss to Scrap “Ring Fenced” Health and Social Care Levy
New Prime Minister Liz Truss has confirmed during her first Prime Minister’s Questions that she will be reversing the 1.25% rise in National Insurance and will be scrapping the Health and Social Care Levy. The National Insurance rise may be reversed as soon as November in Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's upcoming mini Budget. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced, in September 2021 plans for a new ‘health and social care levy’ to fund increases in associated spending in England, alongside reforms to the provision and funding of social care. This followed a previous pledge, made upon becoming Prime Minister in July 2019, to “fix the crisis in social care once and for all”.
The levy was to be a 1.25% tax on earnings for employees, the self-employed and employers, and was to tax earnings in the same way as National Insurance contributions (NICs), except that it will also apply to the earnings of over state pension age, and was due come into force in the tax year starting in April 2023. The levy was to be “hypothecated in law to health and social care, which meant that the levy was “ring fenced” and was to be only to allocated for a particular purpose, in this case a commitment that the £12bn raised will be used directly to fund increases in health and social care spending.
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