18 main announcements from Rachel Reeves' Autumn Budget - full list - Birmingham Live

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : There will be permanent lower tax rates for more than 750,000 retail, hospitality and leisure properties with £4.3bn support package over three years, too.
57% : And the basic and higher tax rate on property savings and dividend income increased by two percentage points has been confirmed too.
56% : Reeves announced that £8,000 of the £20,000 tax-free ISA allowance must be invested in stocks and shares, capping the annual cash ISA allowance at £12,000, except for those who are over 65.
56% : " A high-value council tax surcharge on properties worth over £2 million is set to raise £0.4 billion in 2029-30, according to the OBR.
53% : Both employers and employees are keen to lock in the tax and National Insurance savings on pension contributions this year, and we expect many to maximise contributions before the window closes.
52% : " Ms Reeves is reducing the writing down allowance main rate in corporation tax to raise £1.5bn.
51% : I said that I would cut debt and borrowing, and I meant it." The Budget will extend the existing freezes to personal tax thresholds for another three years until 2030-31, the OBR said.
51% : My choice is a Budget for fair taxes, strong public services, and a stable economy.
49% : Drivers of battery electric cars will be hit by a 3p-per-mile tax from April 2028, with the charge to rise annually with inflation, the OBR said.
49% : She will reduce capital gains tax relief on disposals to employee ownership trusts to raise £900m. Ms Reeves said that the watchdog "are clear that this is not about the last fourteen months.We all know it is about the previous fourteen years - the legacy of Brexit and the pandemic, and the damaging decisions of the party opposite".
45% : Ms Reeves will hike the tax rates on dividends, property and savings income by 2 percentage points to raise £2.1bn. During the Budget, Ms Reeves took time in her Budget announcement to make a joke about Zack Polanski's hypnotherapy claims.
43% : The chancellor told the Commons that the issue had been raised to her by MPs, and the payments will be exempted from the tax "regardless of the circumstances in which those payments are passed down to children".
42% : Reeves has announced that compensation paid out for victims of the infected blood scandal will not be subject to inheritance tax.
35% : She told MPs: "Three years ago, in their clamour to cut taxes for those at the top, the Tories under Liz Truss crashed the economy, sent mortgage rates spiralling and brought pensions to the brink.

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