There are as many reasons to get married as there are not to and money, of course, should never be one. However, our tax system does in many ways favour wedlock over shack-up, none potentially more significant than the attractively-named Inheritance Tax Inter-Spousal Allowance. If you happen, like the late Ken Dodd to be worth £7.5m and pass your fortune to your fiancé, the tax bill would be nearly £3m. If your fiancé becomes your wife, the whole lot passes on tax-free. That could help you overcome many a scruple.
“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”
Why did she/they (in the old sense) think that tinkering around with IHT and CGT would be enough to sort out the NHS; and the potholes; and…and the list goes on. My guess is that they asked the Treasury for a list of anything not involving income tax that they could get away with lightly, although they should already have learned from the winter fuel stuff that all publicity is not good publicity.