Here’s the pot calling the kettle black and throwing large boulders in their glass houses. Let’s say you give the average worker-with-a-pension-man-on-the-London-omnibus the average booklet explaining the average charges on his or her pension. Then an HMRC explanation of their tax and national insurance bill and how it’s calculated; or perhaps details of pension annual and lifetime allowances or the tax treatment of benefits of various types of pensions. I think they would quickly realise that it’s not us who’s bamboozling the pension-paying public, Mr Minister.
“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.