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Rachel Reeves drops huge tax bomb on 8.3m Brits - check if you're hit

2025-04-22 00:00:00.0 每日快报-政治原网页

Millions more will be dragged into paying up more, experts predict (Image: Getty)

More than eight million people are to be dragged into or forced higher up to higher tax thresholds over the next five years because successive governments have frozen the ladder, experts say. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicted that when the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, presented her Spring Statement in March, by the 2029-30 financial year, 8.3 million more individuals would be affected by "fiscal drag" as their wages increase. Some describe this as a "stealth tax".

March projections also suggested, however, that real household disposable income (RHDI) per person will grow at about 0.5% on average each year between 2025 and 2030. Stronger wage growth means this is higher than the previous forecast, which was published in October alongside Ms Reeves' Budget. RHDI measures how much spending power people have from their income and savings, taking into account the effect of inflation. But the Chancellor has said that the Income Tax threshold freeze will be lifted in 2028/29.

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Current Income Tax bands

Band Taxable income Tax rate

Personal Allowance Up to ￡12,570 0%

Basic rate ￡12,571 to ￡50,270 20%

Higher rate ￡50,271 to ￡125,140 40%

Additional rate over ￡125,140 45%

Band	Taxable income	Tax rate
Personal Allowance	Up to ￡12,570	0%
Basic rate	￡12,571 to ￡50,270	20%
Higher rate	￡50,271 to ￡125,140	40%
Additional rate	over ￡125,140	45%

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The Treasury told The Times: “This government inherited the previous government’s policy of frozen tax thresholds. At the budget and the spring statement, the chancellor announced that we would not extend that freeze.

"We are also protecting payslips for working people by keeping our promise to not raise the basic, higher or additional rates of income tax, employee national insurance or VAT.

"That’s the ‘Plan for Change’, protecting people’s incomes and putting money into people’s pockets.”

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