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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Sophie Wingate

Reeves urged to overhaul tax system and hike levies in breach of manifesto

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

Chancellor Rachel Reeves should use her Budget to raise major taxes and overhaul the system instead of “picking from a Scrabble bag of lots of little individual tax rises”, experts have suggested.

The Government is under pressure to balance the books ahead of November’s autumn statement amid warnings of a black hole estimated to be as much as £50 billion in the public finances.

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