{"id":109143,"date":"2021-01-22T08:32:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=109143"},"modified":"2021-01-22T08:32:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:32:39","slug":"government-borrowing-soared-to-34-1billion-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/government-borrowing-soared-to-34-1billion-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Government borrowing soared to \u00a334.1BILLION in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Government borrowing soared to \u00a334.1BILLION in December the third highest monthly figure EVER amid growing fears over the \u00a32.1TRILLION debt mountain<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Government borrowing \u00a334.1billion in December, third highest month on record\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The UK&#8217;s debt pile hit \u00a32.13trillion at the end of the year, 99.4 per cent of GDP\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Total borrowing April-December was highest since records began amid Covid\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Government borrowing soared to \u00a334.1billion in December &#8211; the third highest monthly figure on record &#8211; amid growing fears about the UK&#8217;s debt mountain.<\/p>\n<p>The number for the last month of 2020 was \u00a328.2billion higher than the equivalent period in 2019 as the pandemic wreaked havoc on the economy and ministers lashed out on massive bailouts such as furlough.<\/p>\n<p>It pushed total borrowing for the first nine months of the financial year to\u00a0\u00a3270.8billion, the peak for any April to December period since records began in 1993.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are fears the full-year figure will top \u00a3400billion.\u00a0Even in the aftermath of the credit crunch, borrowing only hit \u00a3158billion in 2009-10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s debt pile reached \u00a32.13trillion by the end of 2020, around 99.4 per cent of GDP &#8211; the highest debt to GDP ratio since 1962.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/01\/22\/07\/38341276-9175265-image-m-11_1611301151158.jpg\" height=\"414\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Government borrowing soared to \u00a334.1billion in December &#8211; the third highest monthly figure on record<\/p>\n<p>Alongside spending to ease the effects of lockdowns, extra borrowing has been needed to make up the fall in the amount of tax that HM Revenue &amp; Customs has been able to collect.<\/p>\n<p>In December, tax receipts are estimated to have been \u00a343.6billion, down \u00a31.4billion from the same period in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been notable falls in VAT and business rates.<\/p>\n<p>The staggering scale of the government&#8217;s liabilities emerged as Rishi Sunak comes under pressure to boost support for coronavirus-hit firms and workers even further.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Business leaders are the Chancellor extends the \u00a346billion furlough scheme again past April, warning crippled firms cannot wait for a decision until the Budget in March.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mr Sunak appears increasingly isolated in Cabinet as he resists calls to extend the \u00a320-a-week increase to universal credit.<\/p>\n<p>The move would cost \u00a36billion a year, with Treasury sources pointing out that is equivalent to a penny on the basic rate of income tax.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sunak has insisted he stands ready to support jobs and businesses, with a raft of measures including furlough, grants and loans already in place.<\/p>\n<p>Interest rates are incredibly low, meaning that financing the debt is relatively cheap for the government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, he has also cautioned that there will be a reckoning for the enormous outlays once the immediate crisis has passed &#8211; with swingeing tax rises and spending cuts feared as he scrambles to balance the books.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/01\/22\/07\/38341032-0-image-a-1_1611300107231.jpg\" height=\"486\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s debt pile reached \u00a32,131.7billion by the end of 2020, around 99.4 per cent of GDP &#8211; the highest debt to GDP ratio since 1962<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9175265\/Government-borrowing-soared-34-1BILLION-December.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government borrowing soared to \u00a334.1BILLION in December<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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