Uk Economy - Fiscal Ending

Fiscal ending

It’s is one of the lowest in the world. Low corporate tax can help nations make upper hand by arranging for more benefits accessible to speculations. This can likewise debilitate organizations from moving venture abroad and pull in outside organizations to move to the UK.

Lower tax is a key element to boost productivity in an economy and UK plans to increase personal allowance to £12,500 from current £10,000 and second slab (40% slab) to £50,000 by the year 2020.

Taxes contribute 34.4% to United Kingdom’s GDP compared to 35.7% in the European Union which means that the tax burden in UK is less. There was an increase of 4% in tax revenues in 2014-15 when compared to 2013-14. In the recent years, the corporate tax has been reduced to 20% from 28% and the government plans to reduce it further to 18% by 2020, allowing business to earn more profits which will lead to higher investments in the economy.

High government debt shows the burden on the United Kingdom’s economy. Government is taking multiple measures to reduce the debt. One such measure is that all government departments has department expenditure limit(DEL), which provide each government department a limit to expenditure. Also, government plans to reduce it to 60% of the GDP by 2030 from current 90%.

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UK have current account deficit which is 5.4% of the GDP. It has increased drastically in last 5 years. Major reasons are high deficit in the Goods Account, high consumer spending and low saving rates.

 Leaving European Union can make it hard for the United Kingdom to continue its huge and constant current account deficit, which implies it acquires less from abroad exchange, investment salary and settlements every year than it spends to foreigners.

Certain policies that can be adopted in order to reduce current account deficit are

1. reduce consumer spending,
2. devaluation, and
3. supply side policy i.e. making market more competitive.

Trade deficit, goods and services’ balance between exports and imports, has been stable since 2010. The average trade deficit for year 2010-2014 was 2%, has decreased from the average deficit of 2.8% for year 2000-2009.

Though historically, the decrease in trade balance is due to the decrease in current account deficit but not in this case since 2010, which is unusual.

UK has been world’s leader in financial services and that reflects on their service account balance, earning more than £54 billion in financial services along with insurance and pension services.

Major imports of goods include machinery, manufactured goods, fuel. With finished manufactured goods contributing to more than 50%, and machinery road vehicles record two-third of the aggregate.