Energy bills support could be funded with a raid on banks, despite warnings about the impact on mortgage rates and the financial sector;. The Chancellor could signal a longer-term move to strip green levies from energy bills and de-link the gas and electricity markets;. A scheduled fuel duty hike is expected to be dropped to ease the suffering for motorists;. Labour is dropping Rachel Reeves' plans to slash the cash ISA allowance from £20,000 following a backlash;.
The Budget is said to assume that the Rosebank oil project in the North Sea will be approved, despite resistance from ministers and Labour MPs;. The minimum wage will be increased by 3.9 per cent from April, but Labour looks to have ditched the drive to equalise the rate for under-21s;. Lowest-income pensioners could get a special tax allowance to prevent them being drawn into tax by the state pension rise in April;. Government briefings have suggested there will be a major move on Mr Burnham's devolution drive.
The Daily Mail's headline says Healey is set to drag millions deeper into the tax system. The body sets out no measure that does this; its only passage on tax describes a planned allowance to keep the lowest-income pensioners out of tax.
Headline goes beyond the article
Minor
“is set to drag millions deeper into tax system”
Why this matters
The headline states in the outlet's own voice, with no attribution, that the Budget will drag millions deeper into the tax system.
The impression it gives
The reader believes the body sets out a measure, such as a threshold freeze, that will pull millions of people into tax or into higher tax.
The context
No body sentence reports a threshold freeze or any measure dragging millions into tax. The one passage on the subject runs the other way: a special allowance to stop the lowest-income pensioners being drawn into tax. Same-day coverage reports that Healey cut his headroom to avoid putting up taxes.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“to prevent them being drawn into tax by the state pension rise in April”
Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “threshold” and “freeze”.