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In today’s newsletter: A damning report accuses Israel of war crimes as millions of displaced people are unable to return home

Labour’s first budget in 14 years appears to have avoided the Halloween nightmares that many predicted. Yes, the overall tax burden is at its highest level since 1948, but this budget’s tax and spend distribution is such that it spreads both the pain and the benefit. Most of the pain…

Tax rises in the Budget are likely to hit workers in the pocket with lower pay rises, Rachel Reeves has admitted.

The Office for Budget Responsibility stressed three quarters of the rise in National Insurance on employers would ultimately feed through into lower wage increases for employees

Guardian investigation revealed scale of penalties for unwitting breaches of carer’s allowance earnings limits

Rachel Reeves will seek to close £40bn Whitehall spending gap with range of potential measures

Ministers have given varying descriptions of group they have pledged not to raise taxes on

Here are the stories making headlines to start off the week.