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Labour accuses Jeremy Hunt of ‘dirty dozen’ stealth taxes in Autumn Statement

2023-12-01 00:00:00.0 独立报-英国政治原网页

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Labour has accused Jeremy Hunt of hiding a “dirty dozen” of stealth taxes – costing households ￡800 a year – in the autumn statement.

The chancellor is already under fire after it emerged the UK’s tax burden will still hit a post-war high despite his trumpeted cuts to national insurance.

A freeze on personal tax thresholds brought in by Rishi Sunak to pay for the pandemic will hand the Treasury ￡45bn by 2028, up from ￡8 bn a year in 2021.

Other changes hidden in the small print of the autumn statement include increases to a host of smaller taxes including vehicle excise duty, gaming duty, environmental levies and tobacco, part of what Labour described as a “dirty dozen” of stealth taxes.

The Treasury will also take in billions more than initially forecast from freezes to ISA limits and inheritance tax thresholds, the tax-free amounts allocated to each worker before they start to pay income tax and national insurance. The overall take from council tax will be ￡12.7bn more five years from now.

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Labour said that overall the changes added up to an extra ￡23bn, or ￡800 per UK household.

Darren Jones, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said the autumn statement was a “Trojan horse packed with stealth taxes”.

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