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When President Biden left office (end of his term in January 2025), the economy was broadly described in official and private forecasts as growing but cooling: real GDP growth slowed into 2025 (BEA re...
The $2,000 “Trump giveaway” rumor traces back to public posts by former President Donald Trump on Truth Social in which he pledged a funded by tariff revenue, a claim widely reported by multiple outle...
National statistics show clear ethnic variation in benefit receipt: in Universal Credit claimants in January–June 2025, 76% were recorded as White, 10–10.4% Asian/Asian British and 6.0% Black/African/...
President Trump has repeatedly proposed a to most Americans, framed as a direct payment funded by tariff revenues, but this remains a public pledge rather than an implemented program. Reporting across...
The supplied analyses do not converge on a single, explicit figure for the United Kingdom’s total contributions to the EU budget from 2010–2020; instead they offer , leaving the total for 2010–2020 un...
The federal deficit in fiscal year (FY) 2025 was $1.8 trillion, about $41 billion (2%) less than FY2024, while CBO projects deficits measured as 6.5% of GDP in 2025 versus 7.0% in 2024 (CBO’s adjusted...
The default answer is: not necessarily — a pension inherited from a parent will generally become part of the deceased’s estate for UK Inheritance Tax (IHT) purposes from 6 April 2027, so it can be sub...
Passenger data in the UK is governed by the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, which impose principles of lawfulness, purpose limitation, data minimisati...
Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) administers Air Passenger Duty (APD) and relies on airline and operator passenger data to calculate, collect and enforce that tax from aircraft operators; airlin...
Between 2010 and 2020 the United Kingdom was a consistent net contributor to the EU budget, with typical annual net contributions in the range of roughly £5–11 billion depending on the calculation met...
Available sources in the packet do not mention a “£71,000” figure or whether that amount includes childcare, housing or pension contributions; therefore I cannot confirm inclusion or exclusion of thos...
The UK froze multiple personal tax thresholds in cash terms beginning in April 2021 primarily to raise revenue through , where nominal wage growth pushes taxpayers into higher effective tax rates with...
The claim that the UK has introduced a is unsupported by the documents provided: none of the supplied sources report a new nationwide £500 charge for people leaving the UK. The materials instead refer...