Could Reeves break a 50-year taboo by raising income tax in her Budget?

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It has been called the 50-year tax taboo.

It is more than half a century since a chancellor of the exchequer chose to put up the basic rate of income tax - that was Labour's Denis Healey, who delivered his Budget on 15 April 1975.

Not once since have any of his successors done the same thing.

Five decade

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