Ahead of the General Election , here are five important numbers you need to know.
18.4 million
This is the number of working British households who've had their taxes cut twice this year.
It is also the number of working households for whom we'll cut National Insurance again, from 8% to 6%.
And it is also the number of working households who face a £2,094 tax hike from the Labour Party. This is the amount that Labour would need to put taxes up by for every working family to fill a....
£38.5 billion black hole in their spending plans. They've reportedly discussed raising this money with new taxes in an Autumn Budget.
New taxes which aren't in their manifesto. We don't know which taxes they'll hike, and Labour won't tell us. But there are 18
tax hikes that Labour have not ruled out. Including adding more council tax bands. Applying Capital Gains Tax to family homes. And applying the income tax to the state pension for the first time in history.
