Labour 'quietly hammering' workers as pensioners benefit, think tank warns

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56% : The report also said that over the next five years, welfare spending will rise by £73.2bn to £406.2bn, with an extra £34bn due to the triple lock.
56% : This meant Rachel Reeves' £26bn tax grab in the Budget was used to fill gaps left by Labour's U-turn on welfare reforms in the Summer and to cover a new spending splurge on the lifting of the two-child benefit cap.
56% : Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said it was a "Budget for benefits street" as she took aim at Reeves' "tax and spend" agenda.
53% : The Office for Budget Responsibility confirmed that the move would raise £8bn a year by 2029, and would drive 780,000 more people into paying the basic rate of income tax, 920,000 more into the higher rate, and 4,000 into the additional rate by the end of the parliament.
50% : This could climb even further to £537, if Reeves follows assumptions in exempting those on state pension from paying income tax even once the payment crosses the personal allowance threshold.
49% : The Labour government is "quietly hammering" workers following the Autumn Budget's stealth tax raid while pensioners and those on benefits are set to enjoy a jump in income, a think tank has said.
48% : "Labour's tax policy is quietly hammering workers while protecting pensioners and benefit recipients.
45% : "This is fiscal drag in action, raising taxes for millions of workers through the back door," Daniel Herring, CPS head of economic and fiscal policy, said.
42% : In the November Budget, Rachel Reeves extended the freeze on income tax thresholds until 2031 - a move which is viewed as a discrete tax grab as it quietly drags more Brits into higher tax bands as wages increase.

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