The chancellor’s allies argue his plans for pensioners will mean they do not need to face an administrative burden just to pay a small amount of tax.<\/p>\n
More specific details, including how many pensioners this will affect, have yet to be confirmed by the Treasury.<\/p>\n
The Budget is due to be printed this evening, with Healey’s speech likely to be fine-tuned right up until it is delivered on Wednesday lunchtime.<\/p>\n
Treasury sources concede it will not involve the scale of tax and spending announcements seen from Labour and Conservative governments in recent years.<\/p>\n
The Tories are calling on the chancellor to cut green taxes, red tape and benefits to bring down energy bills.<\/p>\n
Reform is recommending the chancellor adopts 60 policies which they claim will create jobs – including approving the controversial Rosebank oil field – a project Healey is understood to back.<\/p>\n
Liberal Democrat Treasury spokeswoman Daisy Cooper has called on the government to agree a new growth and defence partnership with the EU, including joining the single market. She argued this would help “ease the huge tax burden weighing people down”.<\/p>\n
The Green Party has urged Healey to use his first Budget to “make the UK affordable”, including by funding energy bill support by ending a tax relief for data centres.<\/p>\n
Senior Green politicians, including leader Zack Polanski, MPs and peers, made clear their suggestions in a letter to Healey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chancellor’s allies argue his plans for pensioners will mean they do not need to face an administrative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-814387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814387","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=814387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}