The cuts are being planned as Chancellor Rachel Reeves seeks to plug an estimated £11.5bn hole in her finances and meet her fiscal rules in her 26 March Spring Statement. These state that day ...

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Matthew Oulton of the IFS did not mince his words ... Ms Reeves may be forced into an emergency tax grab during the Spring Statement later this month - an event that was never meant to be a ...

Meanwhile, IFS analysis of data on tax and spend suggests ... pounds in an effort to balance the books when she delivers the statement on March 26. The Treasury is putting its proposals to ...

Meanwhile, IFS analysis of data on tax and spend suggests ... pounds in an effort to balance the books when she delivers the statement on 26 March. The Treasury is putting its proposals to ...

UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has set herself a fiscal "trap" ahead of this month's spring forecast statement, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned. IFS research economists explained that ...

Meanwhile, IFS analysis of data on tax and spend suggests that expenditure ... by billions of pounds in an effort to balance the books when she delivers the statement on March 26. The Treasury is ...

According to IFS, the current high inflation rate is as ... 2007-2008 global financial and food price crises”, it said in a statement. “Interestingly, after these six months that saw inflation ...