Budget 2024: Hunt brings in stealth tax on workers, axes public services

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : In reality, its stagnant wages, public sector cuts and stealth tax rises.
57% : But this tax isn't nearly enough.
54% : Akshata Murty -- Rishi Sunak's wife -- used the non-domicile status to avoid paying millions in tax.
50% : Hunt increased the VAT tax threshold for small businesses from £80,000 to £90,000 and reduced the higher tax rate on property capital gains -- the amount you make from selling property -- from 28 percent to 24 percent.
49% : The Tories have frozen income tax bands -- the threshold of different tax rates -- and the personal tax allowance -- the point at which you start paying tax.
41% : He proclaimed that he is "offering permanent cuts in taxation".

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