Taxation in the United Kingdom may involve payments to a minimum of two different levels of government: The central government Her Majesty's Government is the government of the United Kingdom. Under the Constitution of the United Kingdom, executive authority notionally lies with the monarch but is exercised in practice by her ministers. Her Majesty's Government is the collective name for these ministers, and it is effectively an executive authority for the UK (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (Welsh: Cyllid a Thollau Ei Mawrhydi) is a non-ministerial department of the British Government primarily responsible for the collection of taxes and the payment of some forms of state support) and local government Local government in the United Kingdom has origins that pre-date the United Kingdom itself with each of the four countries of the United Kingdom having a separate system. In total, there are 434 local authorities in the UK: 354 in England, 26 in Northern Ireland, 32 in Scotland and 22 in Wales. For details see:. Central government revenues come primarily from income tax An income tax is a tax levied on the income of individuals or business . Various income tax systems exist, with varying degrees of tax incidence. Income taxation can be progressive, proportional, or regressive. When the tax is levied on the income of companies, it is often called a corporate tax, corporate income tax, or profit tax. Individual, National Insurance National Insurance in the United Kingdom was initially a contributory system of insurance against illness and unemployment, and later also provided retirement pensions and other benefits. It was first introduced by the National Insurance Act 1911, and expanded by the government of Clement Attlee in 1946 contributions, value added tax Value added tax , or goods and services tax (GST) is a consumption tax levied on any value that is added to a product. In contrast to sales tax, VAT is neutral with respect to the number of passages that there are between the producer and the final consumer; where sales tax is levied on total value at each stage (though in US and many other, corporation tax Corporation tax is a tax levied in the United Kingdom on the profits made by companies and on the profits of permanent establishments of non-UK resident companies and associations that trade in the EU. Prior to the tax's enactment on 1 April 1965, companies and individuals paid the same income tax, with an additional profits tax levied on and fuel duty Hydrocarbon oil duty is the name given to the excise duty levied on oils in the United Kingdom. It is also commonly known as fuel duty and fuel tax. Local government revenues come primarily from grants from central government funds, business rates in England and Wales Business rates is the commonly used name of non-domestic rates, a tax on the occupation of non-domestic property. Rates are a property tax used to fund local services that dates back to the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601. The Local Government Finance Act 1988 introduced business rates in England and Wales from 1990, repealing its immediate, Council Tax Council Tax is the system of local taxation used in England, Scotland and Wales to part fund the services provided by local government in each country. It was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, as a successor to the unpopular Community Charge. The basis for the tax is residential property, with discounts for single people and increasingly from fees and charges such as those from on-street parking Decriminalised Parking Enforcement is the name given in the United Kingdom to the civil enforcement of car parking regulations, carried out by civil enforcement officers. In the fiscal year A fiscal year is a period used for calculating annual ("yearly") financial statements in businesses and other organizations. In many jurisdictions, regulatory laws regarding accounting and taxation require such reports once per twelve months, but do not require that the period reported on constitutes a calendar year (i.e., January 2007-08, total government revenue was 39.2 per cent of GDP The gross domestic product or gross domestic income (GDI) is a basic measure of a country's economic performance. It is the market value of all final goods and services made within the borders of a country in a year. It is often positively correlated with the standard of living, though its use as a stand-in for measuring the standard of living has, with net taxes and National Insurance contributions standing at 36.9 per cent of GDP[1]—approximately £606,661,000,000 (using 2008 nominal GDP measured in dollars, and converting using 2009 conversion rate).
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in job losses Policies to aid adjustment in such circumstances would be essential Even if demand were to fall significantly however it would occur slowly over a generation or more A second concern is that higher tax rates will reduce government revenues In fact the empirical evidence shows that an increase in tobacco taxes can raise tobacco tax revenues One
