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Pie chart of UK government spending, 2023-24. [2] The most significant area of government spending is welfare (£341 billion in financial year 2023-24), [2] with the largest single element of this being for the State Pension, which totals £124 billion.
The period of fiscal year. The UK fiscal year ends on 5 April each year, while in the United States it begins on 1 October and ends on 30 September the following year. The person that the budget document begins with. In the UK, Budgets are usually set once every year and are announced in the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
After the war there was an expansion in the work of official statisticians resulting from the aim of managing the economy through controlling government income and expenditure using an integrated system of national accounts and in 1962, comprehensive financial statistics were published for the first time.
Before the official establishment of the modern welfare state, clear examples of social welfare existed to help the poor and vulnerable within British society. A key date in the welfare state's history is 1563; when Queen Elizabeth I's government encouraged the wealthier members of society to give to the poor, [2] by passing the Poor Act 1562.
UK income tax and National Insurance charges (2016–17) UK income tax and National Insurance as a percentage of taxable pay, and marginal income tax and NI rate (2016–17) Annual income percentiles for taxpayers in the UK, before and after income tax. In the SVG file, hover over a graph to highlight it.
The Scottish Government, subject to the approval of the Scottish Parliament, has the power to vary the basic rate of income tax payable in Scotland by plus or minus 3 pence in the pound, though this power has not yet been exercised. In the 20-year period from 1986/87 to 2006/07 government spending in the UK averaged around 40% of GDP. [132]
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Local government revenues come primarily from grants from central government funds, business rates in England, Council Tax and increasingly from fees and charges such as those for on-street parking. In the fiscal year 2014–15, total government revenue was forecast to be £648 billion, or 37.7 per cent of GDP , with net taxes and National ...