Rachel Reeves’s £40bn tax rises in the Budget are set to push the UK’s tax burden to its highest level in decades, surpassing ...

With the overall tax burden set to hit a new record high, the chancellor’s decision to increase the rate of national insurance paid by employers – and lower the threshold at which it is paid ...

Carl Emmerson, the deputy director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said: “With the UK tax burden rising to levels that we haven’t previously seen in this country it is no surprise that people ...