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UK tax rises: The five steps that could lead to increases

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves is on track to meet her self-imposed rules on the public finances.

But experts say she may struggle to meet them and the only way she may do so is to raise taxes.

There are essentially five steps to get from where we are now to tax rises in October .

Government has already announced big cuts to the welfare bill as well as plans to cut civil service and abolish several quangos including NHS England .

But as Paul Dale , chief UK economist at Capital Economics , puts it: "Non-defence spending can only be cut so far" Reeves has not ruled out tax rises but told the BBC there were "opportunities".

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