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1 week ago | msn.com | Pieter Snepvangers |Ben Butcher

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1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Pieter Snepvangers |Ben Butcher

It also found the median full-time worker, earning £38,000 a year, pays £2,265 in taxes towards benefits. Their taxes contribute a further £1,455 towards the NHS and £817 is spent paying off the interest on the Government's £2.7 trillion worth of debt. For an additional rate taxpayer earning £125,140 a year, almost £15,000 (£14,960) of their income goes towards the welfare state and £10,000 (£9,608) is spent on the NHS.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Mariana Hallal |Ben Butcher

Unemployment and disability benefits cost the average person £820 combined. This dwarfs minor spending at the bottom of the tax bill, including £1.40 per person on forestry management and protection, or £4.30 on street lighting. The figures relate to spending made in the 2023-24 financial year, based on analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Our tool also reveals the dramatic changes to how our tax is spent over the past 70 years.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Charles Hymas |Ben Butcher

The 429,000 fall in net migration is the biggest calendar-year drop since the early stages of the pandemic. While it stood at 184,000 in the year ending December 2019, it decreased to 93,000 in the year ending December 2020 after a year of lockdowns and travel restrictions. The latest figures show that long-term immigration fell below one million for the first time in three years, dropping from 1,326,000 in 2023 to 948,000 in the year ending December 2024.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Genevieve Holl-Allen |Ben Butcher

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