Important Budget Update
Storm clouds revealed by the Budget will force taxpayers in the South West to work an extra two years without pay to balance the country’s books
Exeter accountants, Wheelers, have launched two free initiatives to prevent local taxpayers and businesses being drowned by the storm clouds identified in the small print of George Osborne’s Budget. Launching the initiatives, Wheelers Managing Director, Desmond Danes said:
“Inevitably the likes of the sugar levy, school reforms, lifetime ISAs, business rates exemptions and flood defence spending promises will grab most of the headlines. But the real story today is not about the detailed announcements, which ranged from innovative and genuinely useful to window dressing and spin. It is not even about the prediction that there are storm clouds on the horizon.
The real story today is that the storm clouds aren’t gathering, they are already here. They were here before the Chancellor stood up. And they are still here now he has sat down.
The brutal truth, which the Chancellor confirmed today, is that successive governments have spent over £1.7 trillion more than they have earned. That’s the equivalent of over £58,000 for every single taxpayer, or over £93,000 for every single family in the South West. Putting it another way, someone working full time and earning average national wages would have to work for two years and give every single penny of their wages over to the taxman just to pay for what the country has already spent. And that’s not all, because to pay for new government spending the average taxpayer in the South West will also need to hand over another 21 weeks’ worth of wages in tax every single year.
Shocking as those numbers are, the good news is that the South West can fight back in two key ways. Firstly, by making local business more successful we can generate enough extra jobs, income and wealth to make paying those extra taxes much less painful. And secondly we can make sure that none of us pay an unfair share of those taxes.
Exactly how much we each end up paying is very complicated, and there are a great many traps for the unwary. So we believe that the region’s taxpayers need to take urgent action to protect themselves, their families and their businesses. And to help them, today we are launching a free 2016 Tax Fairness Review service for businesses and individuals to make sure that they don’t pay a single penny more than their fair share in tax.
We are also launching a free “2016 Business Builder” initiative to help the South West’s businesses generate the growth and prosperity the country needs in order to make paying all those extra taxes easier and less painful. Using leading-edge software, systems and thinking, it will help local businesses discover new ways to create more jobs, profits and wealth.
Together these initiatives will help to ensure that the region is treated fairly as it pulls it weight.”
Readers who would like to discover exactly what the 2016 Business Builder and Tax Fairness Review initiatives can do for them – and test drive them for free – can do so by calling Desmond Danes at Wheelers on 01392 360660.
