Chancellor Rachel Reeves just dropped Budget 2025, and it's packing a £26bn punch aimed squarely at both the wealthy and working Brits. The headline act? Freezing income tax and national insurance thresholds until 2031, a classic "stealth tax" that'll quietly drain £11bn from your pockets by the end of parliament.

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Rachel Reeves just delivered a Budget that's pulling almost a million people into the 40% tax bracket. If you're earning a decent salary and wondering why your take-home pay feels squeezed, you're not imagining it.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves just dropped a bomb on Britain's favourite savings product. Starting April 2027, your cash ISA allowance is getting chopped from £20,000 to £12,000.

Rachel Reeves just dropped a pension bombshell. Starting April 2029, salary sacrifice pension contributions will be capped at £2,000 per employee annually.

Rachel Reeves just confirmed the UK's getting a "high-value council tax surcharge"—fancy speak for a mansion tax—on properties worth over £2m.

Rachel Reeves just threw £1.5 billion at the UK's skills problem. And honestly? It's about time.

Rachel Reeves just delivered the UK’s biggest tax grab in decades, and your wallet’s about to feel it. The Chancellor raised £26bn through a cocktail of frozen thresholds, new property levies, and a cash ISA slash that’ll push nearly 2 million more Brits into higher tax brackets.

After years of complaints from high street retailers, the government's finally tweaked business rates, but not everyone's celebrating. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a "permanently lower" rate for small retail, hospitality, and leisure businesses in Budget 2025, funded by slapping higher charges on big properties.

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The government's latest Budget promises to revive UK capital markets. The City minister sounds confident, the narrative's upbeat, and the reforms are wrapped in the language of revival. But here's the uncomfortable truth: this package is far too cautious for an economy that's spent a decade watching its global competitiveness crumble. This isn't a reboot of UK capital markets, it's barely a restart.

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