The UK is the imposition of taxes on retirees to pay winter fuel again

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The controversial winter fuel can be restored to all retirees under plans to be seen by Downing Street, while recovering the amount of high -income retirees through tax declarations.

Government officials confirmed that the idea is considered after Mr. Kiir Starmer announced this week U. Regarding the decision last year to cancel the benefit of all retirees, and shorten it to those who already receive retirement credit.

Curtain He said last week that he wanted more retirees to receive payment after about 10 million colors were stripped of the benefit of last winter, which is the opposite of a policy that has proven to be very unpopular with voters in the local English elections for this month.

But Downing Street said he is still looking at how this happens, and final decisions will be made in a “financial event” – the budget for this fall is expected to be.

Officials said that creating a new way to push fuel in the winter will be very complicated and the ministers are studying a simpler option.

“There are a number of options that are considered and this is one of them,” said an official close to the discussions. The payment value is either 200 pounds or 300 pounds annually for each recipient.

A similar approach was followed by former Conservative Party advisor George Osborn when he reduced eligibility to the child’s benefit for better, and this week was approved by the former work consultant Ed Bulls.

Balz said: “What they must do is a big role-say, we will restore the winter fuel allowance for everyone and then withdraw it through the tax system from the highest-income retired.”

Speaking of the Podcast of the Political Coin, which participated in hosting Osborne, the former conservative counselor balls told the Conservative Party; “This is what I did in the interest of the child – and you can do this because the higher income retirees will make their tax. I got their income information.”

Fuel discounts were announced in the winter by Chancellor Rachel Reeves last July, just weeks after the general elections, and the benefit in England and Wales were reduced to retirees who received pensioned credit.

Reforms removed the interest from people with an income of more than 11,800 pounds annually or 18,000 pounds per couple. Analysts said that the expansion of eligibility for payments would be complicated, because there was no simple way to identify income families with a little higher credit for pensions.

Analysts said that the modeling is to reach fuel in the winter in the way in which the child’s entitlement was withdrawn from the owners of the upper will not be without problems.

The fees for the entitlements of the child with high income (HICBC), which are paid by beneficiaries of children if their income exceeds a certain threshold, is controversial since its presentation in 2010 and has led to many prominent cases in the Tax Court against the tax.

Emma Rousson, Director of the General Policy at the Tax Technician Association, said that the government will be “wise” to use HICBC as a model to restrict access to the payment of fuel in the winter, adding that there are many outstanding problems in the policy.

She added that all high income retirees need to fill in the approval of the self -evaluation tax, as the balls suggested, only those who have additional income to pay or gain capital to report.