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 tells readers that Healey is set to drag millions deeper into the tax system, but the body never reports any measure that does this. The only tax-threshold item in the body is one that would keep the lowest-income pensioners out of tax.
Headline goes beyond the article
Serious
“but is set to drag millions deeper into tax system”
Why this matters
The words 'set to drag millions deeper into tax system' state as the outlet's own fact that the Budget will pull millions further into tax.
The impression it gives
A reader takes it that a reported Budget measure will push millions of people into paying more tax, and that the body sets this out.
The context
No sentence in the body reports a frozen threshold or any measure that brings millions into tax, and no source is given for the claim. The one tax-threshold item runs the other way: lowest-income pensioners could get an allowance 'to prevent them being drawn into tax'.
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 “frozen”.