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The OBR accidentally published its Budget forecast before Rachel Reeves presented it, revealing that the government's finances were not as bad as feared — and that she could have met her fiscal rules without freezing income tax thresholds until 2031. BBC economics editor Faisal Islam's analysis explains why the chancellor still chose to tax hard: a Budget in two halves, a doubled £22bn fiscal buffer, a year of market instability to forget, and an unspoken bet that growth beats the 1.5% forecast.
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The OBR accidentally published its Budget forecast before Rachel Reeves presented it, revealing that the government's finances were not as bad as feared — and that she could have met her fiscal rules without freezing income tax thresholds until 2031. BBC economics editor Faisal Islam's analysis explains why the chancellor still chose to tax hard: a Budget in two halves, a doubled £22bn fiscal buffer, a year of market instability to forget, and an unspoken bet that growth beats the 1.5% forecast.
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- The Real Reason Reeves Is Making You Pay More Tax: Anatomy of a Budget in Two Halves — Today UK Times
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- The OBR accidentally published its Budget forecast before Rachel Reeves presented it, revealing that the government's finances were not as bad as feared — and that she could have met her fiscal rules without freezing income tax thresholds until 2031. BBC economics editor Faisal Islam's analysis explains why the chancellor still chose to tax hard: a Budget in two halves, a doubled £22bn fiscal buffer, a year of market instability to forget, and an unspoken bet that growth beats the 1.5% forecast.
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- The Real Reason Reeves Is Making You Pay More Tax: Anatomy of a Budget in Two Halves
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