03/03/2021
A live summary of the
- The scheme will be extended until the end of September.
- income support scheme will continue with a 4th grant covering February to April, and a 5th grant from May.
- incentive payments we give businesses to £3,000 – that’s for all new hires, of any age.
- Restart Grants to help reopen. Non essential retail businesses will open first, so they will receive grants of up to £6,000. Hospitality and leisure businesses, including personal care and gyms who are opening later in the year, can receive grants up to £18,000
- Local authorities will receive additional £425 million of discretionary business grant funding, on top of the £1.6billion already allocated.
- £300m additional funding for the Culture Recovery Fund, supporting arts, culture and sporting institutions as they reopen.
- As the and CBIL schemes come to an end, a new Recovery Loan Scheme will take their place.
- 100% holiday will continue through to the end of June.
- To protect and tourism jobs, the 5% reduced rate of will be extended for six months to 30th September.
- The new £500,000 nil rate band for won't end on 31st March, it will end on the 30th June.
- A new policy to stand behind homebuyers: a guarantee. Lenders who provide mortgages to home buyers who can only afford a 5% deposit, will benefit from a government guarantee on those mortgages.
- Freezing personal tax thresholds
- In 2023 the rate of corporation tax, paid on company profits, will increase to 25% (For larger companies)
- The Super Deduction - For the next two years, businesses can claim 130% of their new machinery cost as a tax cut
- The planned increases in duties for spirits like Scotch whisky, wine, cider and beer, will all be cancelled.
- The planned increase in fuel duty is also cancelled.
- Help to Grow: Management will help thousands of SMEs get world-class management training.
- Help to Grow: Digital will help them develop digital skills with free expert training and a 50% discount on new productivity-enhancing software