In 2021, Tory govt froze annual personal allowance (PA) at £12,570.
Labour continued with it. If PA increased in line with inflation, it would be £16,048 for 2026/27.
As a result, someone earning £20,000 will pay extra £696 income tax in 2026/27 alone.
This is not conducive to economic growth.
Labour continued with it. If PA increased in line with inflation, it would be £16,048 for 2026/27.
As a result, someone earning £20,000 will pay extra £696 income tax in 2026/27 alone.
This is not conducive to economic growth.
The King’s Speech wasn’t the transformative plan for the country we need
The government has some good policies, but not a transformative plan for society.
leftfootforward.org
May 22, 2026 at 9:26 AM
If Burnham wants to talk about “breathing space” in cost of living in Parliament this week, he could start with fiscal drag.
Income tax thresholds have been frozen since 2021.
If the £12,570 tax-free personal allowance had risen in line with inflation, it would now be £16,072. #StealthTax #r4today
Income tax thresholds have been frozen since 2021.
If the £12,570 tax-free personal allowance had risen in line with inflation, it would now be £16,072. #StealthTax #r4today
September 1, 2026 at 6:08 AM
If Burnham wants to talk about “breathing space” in cost of living in Parliament this week, he could start with fiscal drag.
Income tax thresholds have been frozen since 2021.
If the £12,570 tax-free personal allowance had risen in line with inflation, it would now be £16,072. #StealthTax #r4today
Income tax thresholds have been frozen since 2021.
If the £12,570 tax-free personal allowance had risen in line with inflation, it would now be £16,072. #StealthTax #r4today
NEW: The income tax personal allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since April 2021.
What would unfreezing it mean for taxpayers, and how much would it cost?
📈 Isaac Delestre's new explainer investigates: ifs.org.uk/articles/unf...
What would unfreezing it mean for taxpayers, and how much would it cost?
📈 Isaac Delestre's new explainer investigates: ifs.org.uk/articles/unf...
August 4, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Result of Tory/Labour freeze of personal allowance at £12570 since April 2021.
Number of income tax payers: 2021/22, 33m; 2025/26, 39.1m.
Basic rate payers: 2021/22, 27.4m; 2025/26, 30.4m
Pensioners paying income tax: 2021/22, 6.74m; 2025/26, 8.72m.
More poor people paying income tax.
Number of income tax payers: 2021/22, 33m; 2025/26, 39.1m.
Basic rate payers: 2021/22, 27.4m; 2025/26, 30.4m
Pensioners paying income tax: 2021/22, 6.74m; 2025/26, 8.72m.
More poor people paying income tax.
June 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Been saying exactly this from months now about the freeze in the personal allowance...
First the #Tories implemented the freeze and now #Labour have extended the freeze.
They giveth with one hand and taketh it back with the other 🙄
#StealthTax
#PunchingDown
First the #Tories implemented the freeze and now #Labour have extended the freeze.
They giveth with one hand and taketh it back with the other 🙄
#StealthTax
#PunchingDown
April 7, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Been saying exactly this from months now about the freeze in the personal allowance...
First the #Tories implemented the freeze and now #Labour have extended the freeze.
They giveth with one hand and taketh it back with the other 🙄
#StealthTax
#PunchingDown
First the #Tories implemented the freeze and now #Labour have extended the freeze.
They giveth with one hand and taketh it back with the other 🙄
#StealthTax
#PunchingDown
In truth this is one of the first things #Labour should have sorted out when they got into no. 10
More money in everyone's pockets, more money into the economy = win win situation.
Instead they chose to keep the #Tory #StealthTax 🤦🏻♀️
More money in everyone's pockets, more money into the economy = win win situation.
Instead they chose to keep the #Tory #StealthTax 🤦🏻♀️
UK income tax personal allowance (PA) frozen at £12.570 by Tory Govt in 2021. Freeze continued by Labour.
PA adjusted for inflation would have been £15,550 in 2025/26, £16,048 in 2026/27.
Millions of poor forced to pay income tax.
Capital gains & dividends taxed at lower marginal rates than wages
PA adjusted for inflation would have been £15,550 in 2025/26, £16,048 in 2026/27.
Millions of poor forced to pay income tax.
Capital gains & dividends taxed at lower marginal rates than wages
The real cost of frozen income tax bands | AJ Bell
The Chancellor’s Spring Statement laid bare the tax raid that’s hitting workers, with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasting the biggest tax take relative to the economy since World Wa...
www.ajbell.co.uk
May 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM
In truth this is one of the first things #Labour should have sorted out when they got into no. 10
More money in everyone's pockets, more money into the economy = win win situation.
Instead they chose to keep the #Tory #StealthTax 🤦🏻♀️
More money in everyone's pockets, more money into the economy = win win situation.
Instead they chose to keep the #Tory #StealthTax 🤦🏻♀️
the stealthtax remakes bundled with original emulations of a bunch of MD games in a collection with the presentation of Mega Collection would be so fucking good 😭
November 15, 2024 at 3:12 PM
the stealthtax remakes bundled with original emulations of a bunch of MD games in a collection with the presentation of Mega Collection would be so fucking good 😭
So many can barely afford to exist, in part due to wage stagnation & the frozen personal tax allowance...
#Labour : "Have a slightly cheaper day out & forget your troubles" 🤦🏻♀️
#StealthTax
#Poverty
#ChildPoverty
#Labour : "Have a slightly cheaper day out & forget your troubles" 🤦🏻♀️
#StealthTax
#Poverty
#ChildPoverty
May 21, 2026 at 12:28 PM
So many can barely afford to exist, in part due to wage stagnation & the frozen personal tax allowance...
#Labour : "Have a slightly cheaper day out & forget your troubles" 🤦🏻♀️
#StealthTax
#Poverty
#ChildPoverty
#Labour : "Have a slightly cheaper day out & forget your troubles" 🤦🏻♀️
#StealthTax
#Poverty
#ChildPoverty
Under my leadership, Unite will fight any attempt to pick workers' pockets.
Use this calculator to show the effects of the tax threshold freeze on workers paying tax in England, Wales & N Ireland. Tax bands are set at differently by the Scottish Govt. 2/2
workvoicepay.unitetheunion.org/stealthtax
Use this calculator to show the effects of the tax threshold freeze on workers paying tax in England, Wales & N Ireland. Tax bands are set at differently by the Scottish Govt. 2/2
workvoicepay.unitetheunion.org/stealthtax
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media.tenor.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Under my leadership, Unite will fight any attempt to pick workers' pockets.
Use this calculator to show the effects of the tax threshold freeze on workers paying tax in England, Wales & N Ireland. Tax bands are set at differently by the Scottish Govt. 2/2
workvoicepay.unitetheunion.org/stealthtax
Use this calculator to show the effects of the tax threshold freeze on workers paying tax in England, Wales & N Ireland. Tax bands are set at differently by the Scottish Govt. 2/2
workvoicepay.unitetheunion.org/stealthtax
By increasing the price of things you buy, it's the tax on imports that American companies pay that gets passed on to you. A stealthtax, as it were.
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
By increasing the price of things you buy, it's the tax on imports that American companies pay that gets passed on to you. A stealthtax, as it were.
#PunchingDown on long term sick & disabled people.
Worsening the rhetoric against migrants/immigrants, changes to settled status, etc.
Extending freeze on the personal allowance #StealthTax
So many opportunities to make bold changes squandered because they chose to chase #Reform voters.
#Labour
Worsening the rhetoric against migrants/immigrants, changes to settled status, etc.
Extending freeze on the personal allowance #StealthTax
So many opportunities to make bold changes squandered because they chose to chase #Reform voters.
#Labour
Bills up.
Wages too low.
Record profits for Oil & Gas.
50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population.
Shit in our rivers.
Pensioners jailed for protesting.
Migrants thrown under the bus.
Supporting a Genocide.
That's Starmer's legacy.
Wages too low.
Record profits for Oil & Gas.
50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population.
Shit in our rivers.
Pensioners jailed for protesting.
Migrants thrown under the bus.
Supporting a Genocide.
That's Starmer's legacy.
June 22, 2026 at 9:41 AM
#PunchingDown on long term sick & disabled people.
Worsening the rhetoric against migrants/immigrants, changes to settled status, etc.
Extending freeze on the personal allowance #StealthTax
So many opportunities to make bold changes squandered because they chose to chase #Reform voters.
#Labour
Worsening the rhetoric against migrants/immigrants, changes to settled status, etc.
Extending freeze on the personal allowance #StealthTax
So many opportunities to make bold changes squandered because they chose to chase #Reform voters.
#Labour
Thank you @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com
We hear you on #BBCR4. You say, we say, #UKClimateChangeCommitte says - levies on #ElectricityBills are a regressive #StealthTax. If something needs subsidising, use tax funds not our bills @teamlabouruk.bsky.social ! We won't shut up about this... cont
We hear you on #BBCR4. You say, we say, #UKClimateChangeCommitte says - levies on #ElectricityBills are a regressive #StealthTax. If something needs subsidising, use tax funds not our bills @teamlabouruk.bsky.social ! We won't shut up about this... cont
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Thank you @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com
We hear you on #BBCR4. You say, we say, #UKClimateChangeCommitte says - levies on #ElectricityBills are a regressive #StealthTax. If something needs subsidising, use tax funds not our bills @teamlabouruk.bsky.social ! We won't shut up about this... cont
We hear you on #BBCR4. You say, we say, #UKClimateChangeCommitte says - levies on #ElectricityBills are a regressive #StealthTax. If something needs subsidising, use tax funds not our bills @teamlabouruk.bsky.social ! We won't shut up about this... cont
👉 By 2030–31, anyone earning under £35k will pay MORE tax than if Reeves had simply raised the basic rate by 1p.
Yesterday’s Budget delivers a stealth tax raid on workers across Wales according to the @resolutionfoundation.org
#StealthTax #Budget2026
Yesterday’s Budget delivers a stealth tax raid on workers across Wales according to the @resolutionfoundation.org
#StealthTax #Budget2026
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
👉 By 2030–31, anyone earning under £35k will pay MORE tax than if Reeves had simply raised the basic rate by 1p.
Yesterday’s Budget delivers a stealth tax raid on workers across Wales according to the @resolutionfoundation.org
#StealthTax #Budget2026
Yesterday’s Budget delivers a stealth tax raid on workers across Wales according to the @resolutionfoundation.org
#StealthTax #Budget2026
#Labour have extended the freeze on the personal allowance to 2031, by this point it will have been frozen for a decade!
I've been shouting about how unacceptable this is for such a long time now, moreso as Labour swore they wouldn't raise taxes & this is a #StealthTax on everyone!
Please sign 🙏
I've been shouting about how unacceptable this is for such a long time now, moreso as Labour swore they wouldn't raise taxes & this is a #StealthTax on everyone!
Please sign 🙏
The government froze tax thresholds, so working people are being quietly squeezed. I signed this to call for higher tax-free pay. Will you add your name? the.organise.network/campaigns/pe...
Raise the personal tax allowance!
The government froze tax thresholds, so working people are being quietly squeezed. I signed this to call for higher tax-free pay. Will you add your name?
the.organise.network
April 15, 2026 at 1:54 PM
#Labour have extended the freeze on the personal allowance to 2031, by this point it will have been frozen for a decade!
I've been shouting about how unacceptable this is for such a long time now, moreso as Labour swore they wouldn't raise taxes & this is a #StealthTax on everyone!
Please sign 🙏
I've been shouting about how unacceptable this is for such a long time now, moreso as Labour swore they wouldn't raise taxes & this is a #StealthTax on everyone!
Please sign 🙏
📊 Rachel Reeves under fire again: "Mixed signals" are creating conditions for a "credibility shock," says deVere CEO
@nigeljgreen.bsky.social to @gbnewsonline.bsky.social 🔍💼
gbnews.com/money/rachel...
#UKPolitics #TaxHike #RachelReeves #Budget2025 #StealthTax
@nigeljgreen.bsky.social to @gbnewsonline.bsky.social 🔍💼
gbnews.com/money/rachel...
#UKPolitics #TaxHike #RachelReeves #Budget2025 #StealthTax
Middle earners still face £3,000 Budget hit – even after Rachel Reeves's income tax U-turn
Any extension would deepen the 'fiscal drag', with thresholds for income tax drifting further from rates of inflation
gbnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
📊 Rachel Reeves under fire again: "Mixed signals" are creating conditions for a "credibility shock," says deVere CEO
@nigeljgreen.bsky.social to @gbnewsonline.bsky.social 🔍💼
gbnews.com/money/rachel...
#UKPolitics #TaxHike #RachelReeves #Budget2025 #StealthTax
@nigeljgreen.bsky.social to @gbnewsonline.bsky.social 🔍💼
gbnews.com/money/rachel...
#UKPolitics #TaxHike #RachelReeves #Budget2025 #StealthTax
ONCE AGAIN ENERGY COMPANIES OVER-PROFITING!
Electricity up ~30% Gas up ~45%
#StandingCharge slightly down 🤣
FUEL VAT 0% does NOTHING = less money to GOV = #StealthTax coming soon, #EnergyCompanies KEEP PROFITING = the usual NOTHING !
#DataCenters stealing #Water = usual 💩
Thanks
Electricity up ~30% Gas up ~45%
#StandingCharge slightly down 🤣
FUEL VAT 0% does NOTHING = less money to GOV = #StealthTax coming soon, #EnergyCompanies KEEP PROFITING = the usual NOTHING !
#DataCenters stealing #Water = usual 💩
Thanks
September 10, 2026 at 9:10 AM
ONCE AGAIN ENERGY COMPANIES OVER-PROFITING!
Electricity up ~30% Gas up ~45%
#StandingCharge slightly down 🤣
FUEL VAT 0% does NOTHING = less money to GOV = #StealthTax coming soon, #EnergyCompanies KEEP PROFITING = the usual NOTHING !
#DataCenters stealing #Water = usual 💩
Thanks
Electricity up ~30% Gas up ~45%
#StandingCharge slightly down 🤣
FUEL VAT 0% does NOTHING = less money to GOV = #StealthTax coming soon, #EnergyCompanies KEEP PROFITING = the usual NOTHING !
#DataCenters stealing #Water = usual 💩
Thanks
Is it a #StealthTax ?
Should UK #StandingCharges be abolished?
Customers incur standing charges even if they do not use any #energy, which penalises low-income #families and those who consume significantly less than average.
gasoutlook.com/analysis/sho...
Should UK #StandingCharges be abolished?
Customers incur standing charges even if they do not use any #energy, which penalises low-income #families and those who consume significantly less than average.
gasoutlook.com/analysis/sho...
Should UK standing charges be abolished? - Gas Outlook
Customers incur standing charges even if they do not use any energy, which penalises low-income families.
gasoutlook.com
July 31, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Is it a #StealthTax ?
Should UK #StandingCharges be abolished?
Customers incur standing charges even if they do not use any #energy, which penalises low-income #families and those who consume significantly less than average.
gasoutlook.com/analysis/sho...
Should UK #StandingCharges be abolished?
Customers incur standing charges even if they do not use any #energy, which penalises low-income #families and those who consume significantly less than average.
gasoutlook.com/analysis/sho...
UK income tax personal allowance frozen at £12,570 since 2021.
If increased in line with inflation, it would be £16,048 for 2026/27.
As a result, in 2026/27 someone earning £17,000 will pay additional £696 in income tax and £278 in national insurance.
All because govts appease the rich.
If increased in line with inflation, it would be £16,048 for 2026/27.
As a result, in 2026/27 someone earning £17,000 will pay additional £696 in income tax and £278 in national insurance.
All because govts appease the rich.
We need to abolish state-sanctioned poverty
No one is ever born poor. They are condemned to poverty by societal policies which prevent millions from realising their full physical, mental, and intellectual capacities potentialities.
leftfootforward.org
July 8, 2026 at 8:59 AM
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
“It’s time we got this burden under control…There’s no budgetary control of this and yet it all ends up on household bills or contributing to making our electricity some of the most expensive in the industrialised world”
The #StealthTax on our energy bills
“It’s time we got this burden under control…There’s no budgetary control of this and yet it all ends up on household bills or contributing to making our electricity some of the most expensive in the industrialised world”
The #StealthTax on our energy bills
Energy bills likely to rise by 20% in next four years, says Britain’s biggest supplier
MPs told that even if wholesale prices plummet, consumers face higher bills owing to costs of government policies
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
“It’s time we got this burden under control…There’s no budgetary control of this and yet it all ends up on household bills or contributing to making our electricity some of the most expensive in the industrialised world”
The #StealthTax on our energy bills
“It’s time we got this burden under control…There’s no budgetary control of this and yet it all ends up on household bills or contributing to making our electricity some of the most expensive in the industrialised world”
The #StealthTax on our energy bills
The leaked OBR assessment states that Rachel Reeves decision to freeze income tax thresholds will raise £8.3 billion in 2029-30.
So income tax will be going up, contrary to the election pledge, but stealthily, rather than openly
So income tax will be going up, contrary to the election pledge, but stealthily, rather than openly
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
💸⚠️ State pensioners to be 'punished' by 'stealth tax' from HMRC 📉👵🧓
birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of...
#Pensioners #StealthTax #CostOfLiving #HMRC
birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of...
#Pensioners #StealthTax #CostOfLiving #HMRC
State pensioners to be 'punished' by 'stealth tax' from HMRC
<span> T</span><span>hanks to the Triple Lock pledge from the Labour Party government and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), state pension payments are guaranteed to rise every year.</span>
birminghammail.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
💸⚠️ State pensioners to be 'punished' by 'stealth tax' from HMRC 📉👵🧓
birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of...
#Pensioners #StealthTax #CostOfLiving #HMRC
birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of...
#Pensioners #StealthTax #CostOfLiving #HMRC
💰📈 deVere warns UK state pension to rise but tax trap is closing fast🧓💸
londonlovesbusiness.com/devere-warns...
#UKPension #Tax #RetirementPlanning #FinanceNews #StealthTax #UKPolitics
londonlovesbusiness.com/devere-warns...
#UKPension #Tax #RetirementPlanning #FinanceNews #StealthTax #UKPolitics
September 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
💰📈 deVere warns UK state pension to rise but tax trap is closing fast🧓💸
londonlovesbusiness.com/devere-warns...
#UKPension #Tax #RetirementPlanning #FinanceNews #StealthTax #UKPolitics
londonlovesbusiness.com/devere-warns...
#UKPension #Tax #RetirementPlanning #FinanceNews #StealthTax #UKPolitics
💣 Chancellor’s ‘stealth tax bombshell’ might not deliver £8.9bn as entrepreneurs prepare to flee 🇬🇧🚪💼📉
londonlovesbusiness.com/chancellors-...
#UKEconomy #Tax #Entrepreneurs #RachelReeves #StartupExodus #StealthTax
londonlovesbusiness.com/chancellors-...
#UKEconomy #Tax #Entrepreneurs #RachelReeves #StartupExodus #StealthTax
May 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
💣 Chancellor’s ‘stealth tax bombshell’ might not deliver £8.9bn as entrepreneurs prepare to flee 🇬🇧🚪💼📉
londonlovesbusiness.com/chancellors-...
#UKEconomy #Tax #Entrepreneurs #RachelReeves #StartupExodus #StealthTax
londonlovesbusiness.com/chancellors-...
#UKEconomy #Tax #Entrepreneurs #RachelReeves #StartupExodus #StealthTax
UK households face being clobbered with £322 billion stealth tax hit under Labour
#Ukhouseholds #Stealthtax
opr.news/7c189b352503...
#Ukhouseholds #Stealthtax
opr.news/7c189b352503...
UK households face being clobbered with £322 billion stealth tax hit under Labour
The OBR reports in its forecast that income tax (excluding self-assessment) is forecast to raise £260.3 billion in 2024-25 (9.0 per cent of GDP), a 10.9 per cent increase from 2023-24.
UK households ...
opr.news
March 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
UK households face being clobbered with £322 billion stealth tax hit under Labour
#Ukhouseholds #Stealthtax
opr.news/7c189b352503...
#Ukhouseholds #Stealthtax
opr.news/7c189b352503...