From Dan Neidle at Tax Policy Associates:
Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement papers contain a major suite of anti-tax avoidance proposals, probably the toughest ever introduced. If enacted this will, in effect, criminalise the tax avoidance industry.
Why wasn't it referenced in her speech?
Why wasn't it mentioned in all he pre-and-post speech news and comment?
https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/03/26/radical-anti-avoidance-measures-hidden-in-the-spring-statement/
Cuts have ‘huge implications for hardship’ says charity – Channel 4 News
https://www.channel4.com/news/cuts-have-huge-implications-for-hardship-says-charity
/3 edited #SpringStatement Rachel Reeves has failed to “fix the foundations” and has resorted to the kind of “sticking-plaster solutions” to which Keir Starmer said the Tories were addicted. The Independent View
Rachel Reeves will soon be back to squeeze us again. It was not a Budget, but it had as much impact as one
From the Independent. (so Indy it's behind a f'ing paywall. Free speech, my rse!). #UKPolitics #Economics
1/ Edited from 'The Independent'
The View from Westminster
Spring statement overtaken by events already. Within hours of Rachel Reeves’s spring statement yesterday, Donald Trump announced 25 per cent tariffs on all car imports to the US to take effect in a week. –that would negate the chancellor’s announcements at a stroke. Having just restored her £9.9bn headroom against her self-imposed fiscal rules in the forecast for 2029, American tariffs would wipe it out.
#UKPolitics #SpringStatement
@NorthantsGreens because she is a coward, a snob and an ableist
Starmer is Gaslighting people.
It's why he gets on so well with Trump.
Don't we deserve better than this Brits?
Satire but the way Labour are going, this may well be a party political broadcast for them.
#Labour #Starmer #SirKidStarver #SpringStatement #RedTories #poverty #disabled
I wouldn't trust Rachel Reeves to run a path, never mind the economy. These cuts are going to cause further economic contraction, especially in working class areas. This Labour government are a government for billionaires and bankers. #springstatement #labour #rachelreeves #starmer
"People know that there is no justification for these cuts. It does not have to be like this. The Chancellor could scrap her self-imposed fiscal rules or use our taxation system to raise the revenue needed for the better future we all want to see."
Our @PK_PovAlliance on the #SpringStatement.
https://www.povertyalliance.org/news-chancellor-has-no-justification-for-social-security-cuts/
A more balanced, less partisan analysis of the Spring budget statement. Some relatively good, & some not so great news.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rachel-reeves-spring-statement
#RachelReeves
#OBR
#UKpolitics
#SpringStatement
#springbudget
#obrforecast
#UKpol
#UKeconomy
#fiscalrules
Speaking as I find. Fortunate man had the benefit of studying at the #LSE , that school for dissidents and left wing thought before she sold out to the Yankee $ and the Chinese 
. So, applying some critical thinking, when 'our' politicians are tub thumping about affairs elsewhere #Ukraine #Russia you can be sure they are trying to distract you from crisis's and catastrophe on the home front. #UKPol #SpringStatement #Defence #Europe #Government
Really worth watching this clear analysis of Reeves’ Spring Statement, showing that it is deeply flawed. It hinges on maintaining high interest rates to attract foreign investors, but this will in effect bankrupt the UK economy
#UKPolitics #SpringStatement #Budget https://mas.to/@RichardJMurphy/114233131738005285
Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement is deeply worrying
Richard Murphy argues that Reeves' plan is based on attracting massive foreign investment based on high borrowing rates, and the poorest in the UK paying the price.
Funnelling money from poor UK residents to rich foreign investors is not an economic plan, it's a catastrophe, morally disgusting and plays straight into the hands of Reform
The Spring Statement involved a number of choices:
'The Chancellor has committed to improving people’s living standards. This can’t be done by cutting vital social security & public services. Instead she should be investing in the foundations of our economy, repairing the damage done through austerity.
This could be funded by taxation of the very wealthiest people in the country, redistributing resources in a time when wealth inequality is growing'!
https://www.wbg.org.uk/article/our-immediate-response-to-the-spring-statement-2025/
Strange, none of these people are saying "I hope the misery I am going through helps the Economy grow."
This cruelty towards the Vulnerable is supposed to inspire 'consumer confidence' is it?
It's disgusting to pick on people like this, it's Trumpian
But the important thing is not a single Rich Person was harmed, and that's the only 'moral case' Reeves and Starmer care about.
Not us oiks.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/26/more-than-3m-britons-to-lose-out-from-benefits-cuts
Morten Morland @mortenmorland @thetimes on #Reeves #RachelReeves #SpringStatement #BudgetCuts #WelfareCuts – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan, may be starting to wonder if he's in the right party:
'The last minute scramble to claw even more funds from the welfare budget has shattered any illusion of a moral case for cuts... The policy will fuel the social determinants of poverty that ultimately create further pressure on the services the chancellor is trying to cut'!
I wonder how long it will be before a Green MP siddles up to him in the Commons' Bar?
h/t FT
