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December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Revenue and distributional impacts vary by behavioural assumptions. Interactive charts let you explore all scenarios.
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Key findings:
- 4.9 million workers use salary sacrifice for pensions
- 3.3 million (68%) contribute above £2,000
- Total salary sacrifice contributions: £22.7bn
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
We'll be releasing an Autumn Budget Dashboard this afternoon with real-time analysis of announced policies.

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November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Reported: levy on homes over £2m.

We mapped 2024 property sales:
• 3 central London seats: 21% of high-value sales
• London overall: 45-46%
• Top 10 seats (all London/commuter belt): 36%

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Free, open-source tools to understand tax and benefit policies. Calculate your taxes and benefits, or analyze policy reforms.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The Telegraph reported a potential VAT threshold increase.

Our analysis:
• £100k threshold: -£371m, exempts ~48,000 firms
• £70k threshold: +£642m, adds 109,000 firms

Full analysis: policyengine.org/uk/research/...
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Free, open-source tools to understand tax and benefit policies. Calculate your taxes and benefits, or analyze policy reforms.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Reported: +2pp income tax, -2pp NI, extended freezes

Our findings:
• +£6.9bn revenue
• Under £58k: gain
• Over £58k: lose up to £1,748/year
• Pensioners pay only the IT hike

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PolicyEngine
Free, open-source tools to understand tax and benefit policies. Calculate your taxes and benefits, or analyze policy reforms.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The two-child benefit limit restricts Universal Credit to the first two children.

Our analysis of abolishing it:
• Cost: £2.5bn/year
• 300,000 children lifted out of poverty
• Child poverty rate falls 1.2pp

Full analysis: policyengine.org/uk/research/...
PolicyEngine
Free, open-source tools to understand tax and benefit policies. Calculate your taxes and benefits, or analyze policy reforms.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Update: We have moved this event to Monday, 3rd November. Same time and place, even more speakers and technology for evidence-based policymaking.

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/policyengi...
October 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM