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From Dan Neidle at Tax Policy Associates:

Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement papers contain a major suite of anti-tax avoidance proposals, probably the toughest ever introduced. If enacted this will, in effect, criminalise the tax avoidance industry.

Why wasn't it referenced in her speech?

Why wasn't it mentioned in all he pre-and-post speech news and comment?

taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/03/26/ra

Tax Policy Associates · Radical anti-avoidance measures hidden in the Spring StatementIt wasn’t mentioned in the Chancellor’s speech, but the Spring Statement papers contain a major suite of anti-tax avoidance proposals, probably the toughest ever introduced. If enacted this will…

The Spring Statement involved a number of choices:

'The Chancellor has committed to improving people’s living standards. This can’t be done by cutting vital social security & public services. Instead she should be investing in the foundations of our economy, repairing the damage done through austerity.

This could be funded by taxation of the very wealthiest people in the country, redistributing resources in a time when wealth inequality is growing'!

#SpringStatement

wbg.org.uk/article/our-immedia

www.wbg.org.ukOur response to the Spring Statement 2025Our immediate response to the Spring Statement
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Here’s an example from the #Guardian Live evening summary on the #SpringStatement:

“The #Labour party is the party” of work, #Reeves says. More than 1,000 people a day are qualifying for personal independence payments (Pip), Reeves says. “It is a waste of their potential and a waste of their futures.”

Hmmm…#Tories broke the #NHS and social care, and now Labour wonder why so many people need Pip…and if they take it away from them, that’ll get them into work. Completely unhinged and cruel.