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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Adam Forrest

Rishi Sunak’s £150bn ‘stealth tax raid’ will cost families £5,000 each

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Rishi Sunak’s “stealth tax raid” means Britons will be paying £150bn in extra national insurance contributions and income tax over the next six years, it has emerged.

Labour said the decision by the prime minister and his chancellor Jeremy Hunt to freeze tax thresholds would cost the equivalent of £5,000 for every household in the UK.

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