Il Tesoro considera di abbassare le soglie per l’aumento delle aliquote dell’imposta sul reddito nel bilancio – La politica britannica in diretta | Politica
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/nov/14/rachel-reeves-income-tax-budget-keir-starmer-labour-uk-politics-latest-news
di IPlayFifaOnSemiPro
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This will make the £100k tax trap significantly more painful. And further shift the burden of tax further and further onto higher incomes.
Maybe it’s better politically, but this is a bad move economically. And the absolute weaseliest of weasels to claim that they technically met their manifesto promise.
Soon everyone will be on the same take-home pay regardless of occupation, UK is willfully heading towards the economy of Soviet Russia
Yes tax billionaires but do it on wealth please. Putting the burden on high earning professionals who already pay plenty of tax just continues to squeeze the middle class.
I think they have a set of dice in number 11 and just roll them to see what comes up in the next budget. No ideas or direction, just random tax rises and then see how the reaction is
Ah, so this is how they’ll increase income tax receipts without *technically* increasing income tax.
This’ll go down like a bucket of cold sick.
They need to be bloody _raised!_
They’ve been frozen so long the higher rate has already nearly been caught up by the average full time salary. Add into that that a lot of those over the average are effectively paying an additional earnings tax already (ballooned student loans) and we’re getting raked.
Higher rate is already far lower than it should be, lowering the threshold will simply start dragging even more people who only earn slightly more than average salaries into it. I’ve started being taxed 40% on some of my salary now and I’ve not changed careers, I’ve simply had pay rises that have somewhat matched inflation.
Pretty all my overtime will be taxed at 40% now as well, I cant actually earn the same amount as I could five years ago in real terms now. And if I’m not careful and get another pay rise next year I’ll start getting taxed on my child benefit as well.
I’m not wealthy, but I’m paying wealth taxes
Given how much inflation there’s been in recent years if anything they should be raised. Lowering them would be a significant increase in real terms.
Fuck it, I give up. I’m quitting my job and finding a forest to live in. What’s even the point anymore? Rich people have plenty of tax loopholes to exploit, but once again working people get shafted, oh wait, I’m not a working person because I earn slightly above £45k…
And now the media, having been wrong about the rise in the basic rate, move on to the next unpopular thing the government might or might not do.
Can’t we just wait for the Budget?
At this point… I’m just waiting for the budget.
I’ve never seen a budget like this
There’s a huge problem with doing this. Over the past few weeks the cost of Government borrowing has been decreasing as the markets were pricing in the rumoured 2p increase in income tax. This would have raised billions and basically would have plugged the ‘black hole’ without the need for any other tax rises. The markets liked it as it would have shown that the Government was serious about fixing the economy. After this morning’s announcement borrowing costs have surged again. Higher borrowing costs mean a bigger black hole which will result in further tax hikes at next year’s budget. Labour are creating a doom loop and I can’t see how they are going to fix it.
I am so sick of these headlines every day. The 26th can’t come soon enough
I wish the Brits had more of a fighting spirit. The dominant frame is that we’re little Children and the government are parents coming to punish us every November. If everyone just stopped paying tax all at once, the illusion would fall apart. There’s no social contract anymore, all they do is make things worse, they are not needed.
I assumed we were just dealing with incompetence, but no, they’re actively undermining aspiration and sabotaging the economy at the same time.
This just can’t be true, it would be mental. If they did this and removed all of the cliff edges then maybe it would just about fly.
IMO adding a new band wouldn’t actually be a breach of the their manifesto pledge not to raise the basic, higher, or additional rate. Why don’t they just do a 30% on like £35k+ with a reduction on NI.
Or they could do something even better and scrap the separate thresholds and tax free allowance and have a flat rate for everyone, so everyone feels the same pain and there are no distortions around different brackets.
Ah the classic, *We said we won’t increase income tax, BUT we didn’t say we wouldn’t lower the thresholds to bump you into the higher bracket*
Honestly I’d actually be impressed with the sheer audacity if they pulled a move like that 😂
Fuck my arse. The threshold hasn’t moved since 2021 and won’t (go up) until 2028.
Inflation? Never heard of it!
Wage increase? What’s that?
Not worth taking on more shit at work, just not worth the hassle.
They are leaking this shit to see what pisses ppl off the least/most. Fuck me. Nothing like having a plan and evidence based policy eh. Because this is nothing like it.
I doubt they’ll go through with it given the fact inflation is already doing much of the work with minimal political costs.
More people are paying the higher rate than ever and pay inflation will only increase that more.
The headline should be ‘The treasury are looking at loads of different ways of bringing more money in, and we’re going to speculate every single one of them, and make everyone shit their pants on a daily basis for no reason whatsoever’.
Just imagine now they can claim that haven’t broken their promise. First NI rise, then tax on pension contributions now lowering tax brackets – basically all the measures that are affecting take home pay for normal working people, but they would claim that they haven’t broken their manifesto promise. What a mockery.
I run a business absolutely pointless me paying higher than the upper tax rate. I’ll stick it in my own company Sipp pension totally waste of time lowering higher thresholds it needs to be increased to stimulate the economy.
So good, demotivate the Brits from hard working and start new businesses. Everyone stays poor.
I really think this idea of leaking stuff to the press to gauge the reaction is a really bad idea. It creates endless worry, people don’t know what to believe, and then they take it back – looking like they’ve u-turned.
Do what’s right: you’re already unpopular, so the only hope is to fix things well enough that electors will forgive you in the end.
But this constant timidity about trying to see what they can get away with just doesn’t look serious.