Autumn Budget 2024: Brits brace tax raid in Rachel Reeves’ gloomy Halloween Budget – with fags, booze & benefits at risk

Autumn Budget 2024: Brits brace tax raid in Rachel Reeves’ gloomy Halloween Budget – with fags, booze & benefits at risk …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>

By Harry Goodwin

Today is the first Labour budget for 14 years – and the first ever to be delivered by a female Chancellor.

Brits are bracing for a raft of tax hikes as Rachel Reeves tries to plug the “£22billion black hole” she says she’s found in government accounts.

Here are five other budgets which have caused a stir over the years.

1979 – Geoffrey Howe, Conservative

Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor Geoffrey Howe slashed both the top rate of income tax and the standard rate.

He also doubled VAT…

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