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Taxes are on the highest degree they’ve ever been within the UK forward of Rachel Reeves’s spring assertion, based on a number one economist. Paul Johnson, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, stated there was an “historically extraordinary increase in taxes over the last five years”.

He added that the rise is “continuing over the rest of this decade”. It comes because the Chancellor, who hiked taxes by £40 billion in her autumn price range, is anticipating to unveil spending cuts for some authorities departments within the Commons this Wednesday.

Mr Johnson informed BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think the key fact though is if you want serious money you have to do broadly speaking what the Chancellor did back in October – you have to raise one of the big taxes, and she decided to raise national insurance.

“Of course income taxes are rising because we are having allowances and thresholds frozen for a very long period of time.

“That is dragging more and more of our income into income tax, and that is why we have had this historically extraordinary increase in taxes over the last five years and that increase is continuing over the rest of this decade.

“So I think it is really important to be clear for those who are asking for increased taxes – this is the biggest period of raising taxes we have ever had, or at least we have had since the Second World War. They are rising by an extraordinary amount over this decade.”

The Chancellor is anticipated to slash spending in Whitehall departments as she tries to steadiness the books.

She has repeatedly stated she won’t budge from her fiscal guidelines, which rule out borrowing to fund day-to-day spending.

This has led to mounting strain over learn how to steadiness the books – by elevating taxes or reducing spending – amid disappointing progress figures and higher-than-expected borrowing.

But Ms Reeves informed The Sun she wouldn’t be elevating taxes within the spring assertion.