{"id":47246,"date":"2026-02-22T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/higher-tax-helped-government-finance-reach-record-january-surplus\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:01:53","slug":"higher-tax-helped-government-finance-reach-record-january-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/higher-tax-helped-government-finance-reach-record-january-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher tax helped government finance reach record January surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In January 2026, revenue from capital gains tax was nearly \u00a317bn &#8211; 69% higher than in January 2025, he said, adding it was likely a reflection of investors disposing of assets since April 2024, ahead of an expected tax rise that came in the October 2024 Budget.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c93w4egd3gzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2026, revenue from capital gains tax was nearly \u00a317bn &#8211; 69% higher than in January 2025, he said, adding it was likely a reflection of investors disposing of assets since April 2024, ahead of an expected tax rise that came in the October 2024 Budget. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[5345,369,766,307,1054,1652,1061,7657,2277],"class_list":["post-47246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-finance","tag-government","tag-helped","tag-higher","tag-january","tag-reach","tag-record","tag-surplus","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47248,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47246\/revisions\/47248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}