{"id":72526,"date":"2016-07-19T05:33:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T05:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=36a2c51c39172f01de53d359860709b0"},"modified":"2016-07-19T05:33:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T05:33:36","slug":"total-tax-revenues-collected-in-2015-16-increase-by-19-1bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72526","title":{"rendered":"Total tax revenues collected in 2015-16 increase by \u00a319.1bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>HMRC raised \u00a3536.8bn of tax revenues in 2015-16, an increase of \u00a319.1bn (3.7%) on 2014-15, according to the department\u2019s annual report and accounts for 2015-16. It paid \u00a340bn in benefits and credits \u2013 about one-fifth of the government\u2019s total benefit expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The increased amount arose from greater amounts of income tax and National Insurance, which increased by \u00a310.3bn (3.8%), corporation tax, which increased by \u00a34.1bn (9.9%), and VAT, which increased by \u00a32.1bn (1.8%).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>HMRC also collected more capital gains tax and &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>HMRC raised &pound;536.8bn of tax revenues in 2015-16, an increase of &pound;19.1bn (3.7%) on 2014-15, according to the department&rsquo;s annual report and accounts for 2015-16. It paid &pound;40bn in benefits and credits &ndash; about one-fifth of the government&rsquo;s total benefit expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>The increased amount arose from greater amounts of income tax and National Insurance, which increased by &pound;10.3bn (3.8%), corporation tax, which increased by &pound;4.1bn (9.9%), and VAT, which increased by &pound;2.1bn (1.8%).<\/p>\n<p>HMRC also collected more capital gains tax and &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}