{"id":4442,"date":"2026-02-20T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/higher-tax-helped-uk-government-reach-record-january-surplus\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:07:07","slug":"higher-tax-helped-uk-government-reach-record-january-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/higher-tax-helped-uk-government-reach-record-january-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher tax helped UK government reach record January surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Higher tax helped UK government reach record January surplus<\/p>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/HpVtHx.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/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<p>Published at Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:05:15 +0000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher tax helped UK government reach record January surplus 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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/higher-tax-helped-uk-government-reach-record-january-surplus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Higher tax helped UK government reach record January surplus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-politics","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}