{"id":162557,"date":"2025-09-26T23:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/162557\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T23:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:46:12","slug":"plans-for-isle-of-man-healthcare-levy-to-boost-income-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/162557\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for Isle of Man healthcare levy to boost income dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plans for the levy were first introduced by the treasury minister in 2024 as he announced a 2% rise<\/a> in the higher rate of personal income tax, to generate a \u00a320m boost for health from April that year.<\/p>\n

That was reduced by 1% to 21% in the 2025-26 financial year, with additional money in the annual NHS Allocation from National Insurance contributions plugging the gap.<\/p>\n

It was predicted the new levy would raise about \u00a38m more than the previous 2% income tax rise had been expected to, it said.<\/p>\n

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) confirmed earlier this month it was already forecasting a \u00a32.7m deficit<\/a> in the first quarter of the year.<\/p>\n

That followed Manx Care overspending by \u00a315.3m in the previous financial year.<\/p>\n

Allinson said the “increased financial and demand pressures” on health services were “well documented” and the island was “clearly not alone in examining how it can sustain vital frontline services into the future”.<\/p>\n

He confirmed his department was working with the DHSC and Manx Care on a “specialist financial recovery programme”.<\/p>\n

The minister said this had been designed to “complement” the existing cost improvement programme as well as “drive better value for money and deliver reform through the expansion of community services”.<\/p>\n

Details on the feedback shared during the 12-week consultation process would be published at a later date, Allinson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans for the levy were first introduced by the treasury minister in 2024 as he announced a 2%…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-162557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}