Hunt slashes taxes as OBR sharply downgrades growth forecast

Jeremy Hunt autumn statement

Relief allowing firms to claim back cost of investments to be made permanent

Jeremy Hunt will cut national insurance by 2% and has scrapped plans to end a tax cut allowing firms to claim back the cost of equipment in today’s autumn statement.

The chancellor described the ‘full expensing’ measure which lets businesses claim 25% of the cost of investments in IT, equipment and machinery as the “largest business tax cut in modern British history”.

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