Budget Survey

Ashley Fox

Labour has put taxes up by another £26 billion, hitting workers, pensioners, drivers, savers and even milkshakes, all to fund a sharp rise in welfare spending.

I want to hear your views on some of the measures within Labours Budget. Please take a moment to fill in my short survey and share your views. 

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The Budget extends the freeze on personal tax thresholds for three years, hiking tax by £8 billion. Do you support this measure?
This will pull an additional 780,000 more people into the basic rate of Income Tax and 920,000 people into the higher rate, meaning 1.7 million more people will be paying higher levels of Income Tax.
The Budget scraps the two-child benefit cap, costing £3 billion. Do you support this measure?
Scrapping the two-child benefit cap will mean families with more than six children can get a cash bung of £14,000 a year on top existing benefits. Official welfare statistics set out that there are 18,000 families which have 6 or more children. Each of these families could gain £14,054 or more from the removal of the cap
The Budget announces salary-sacrificed pension contributions above an annual £2,000 threshold will no longer be exempt from NICs from April 2029. Do you support this measure?
Labour said they had ‘no plans’ to change pension tax relief during the general election campaign. This measure will harm 57 per cent of households who do not have adequate pension savings – taking £4.7 billion from working people’s pensions. 
The Budget cuts the Cash ISA limit from £20,000 to £12,000, creating a Savings Tax. Do you support this measure?
This broken promise will hurt those on the lowest incomes. Around 14.4 million people hold a Cash ISA, with 43 per cent of them held by those earning less than £20,000 a year.
The Budget raises taxes on landlords, creating a Tenants Tax. Do you support this measure?
This broken promise will reduce the supply of rental properties according to the OBR. ‘The measures announced in this Budget reduce returns to private landlords...This successive eroding of private landlord returns will likely reduce the supply of rental property over the longer run. This risks a steady long-term rise in rents if demand outstrips supply.'
The Budget will tax electric vehicles 3p for every mile they cover annually from 2028, creating a Driving Tax. Do you support this measure?
This broken promise will hike taxes for EV drivers, while simultaneously increasing subsidies for new EV purchases. Only weeks ago, Heidi Alexander said, ‘There are no proposals to introduce a national pay-per-mile scheme. This Government is firmly on the side of drivers, as I've set out already’
The Budget extends the Sugar Drinks Levy to milk-based drinks and reduces the maximum amount of sugar allowed in drinks from 5g to 4.5g of sugar per 100ml, creating a Milkshake Tax. Do you support this measure?
This broken promise will make drinks more expensive whilst food inflation soars by 4.9 per cent in October 2025. It will also add £220 million in costs and increase shelf prices by as much as five per cent.
The Budget unfreezes Fuel Duty. The OBR confirm Fuel Duty will rise after September 2026. Do you support this measure?
Rachel Reeves said last year increasing Fuel Duty ‘would be the wrong choice for working people’. This broken promise will increase Fuel Duty for the first time in 16 years.
Overall, on a scale of 1-5 (with 1 being NOT happy and 5 being VERY happy), how happy are you with the Budget?