2 w. ago Pubs face financial ruin after Rachel Reeves' Budget stealth tax raid: Landlords hike pint prices, reduce opening hours and axe staff in desperate bid to save their boozers

Landlords have warned that punters could potentially be charged more than £18 for a pint as a result of surging costs - while the rate of pub closures accelerates.

Economics

2 w. ago Why doesn't Chancellor raid public sector pensions instead of always coming after private sector workers? STEVE WEBB replies

Those of us who saved hard risk seeing the rug pulled from under us, being left financially vulnerable. We don't have the luxury of income certainty in retirement

Economics

2 w. ago Hospitality industry facing huge 'stealth tax' as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is accused of delivering 'smoke and mirrors' Budget

On Wednesday, the Chancellor announced a reform of business rates, which critics have claimed is a 'stealth tax' on the high street which could trigger mass shop closures early next year.

Events

3 w. ago Budget 2025: 1.7 million workers to pay more income tax due to Reeves’s ‘stealth tax’

It will mean £140 more in tax for hundreds of thousands of earners

Economics

3 w. ago Budget 2025: 1.7 million workers to pay higher income tax rates due to Reeves’s ‘stealth tax’

It will mean £140 more in tax for hundreds of thousands of earners

Economics

3 w. ago Budget 2025: What it means for you as Reeves extends income ‘stealth tax’ for three years

It will mean £140 more in tax for hundreds of thousands of earners

Economics

3 w. ago Rachel Reeves' new stealth raid on workers and pensioners as tax thresholds are put on hold for THREE MORE years

The Chancellor is set to keep the long-running freeze on personal tax thresholds in place for another three years beyond 2028.

Economics

3 w. ago Budget: What it means for you as Reeves extends income ‘stealth tax’ for three years

It will mean £140 more in tax for hundreds of thousands of earners

Economics

3 w. ago Britons brace for highly uneven impact of Rachel Reeves’ ‘stealth tax’

Use the FT’s interactive calculator to understand how a further freeze to income tax thresholds could affect you

Events

3 w. ago What is the ‘stealth’ rise in income tax and how will it affect me after the Budget?

The prime minister refused to rule out income tax thresholds being frozen – which could lead to people paying more

Economics

3 w. ago Use our income tax calculator to see how the Budget could affect YOU

HOUSEHOLDS may have been spared by an income tax hike, but there are still plenty of other ways YOUR pocket could be picked in the Budget. A stealth tax raid expected to be announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in her Budget next Wednesday is set to hammer households. Millions of workers and pensioners face being...

Economics

4 w. ago What would a Budget extension to the freeze in tax thresholds mean?

Rachel Reeves expected to prolong ‘stealth’ tax policy first introduced under previous Conservative government

Economics