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It’s official. The UK economy has a £50 billion black hole in its public finances, and Rachel Reeves is sharpening her fiscal claws.
First, it was pensioners.
Then retirees.
Then the disabled.
Now, the Chancellor is looking straight at your hard-earned income and savings.
We’ve been here before: when governments run out of money, they don’t cut spending, they cut your wealth. They tax more. They inflate more. And they dress it all up as “necessary measures for the good of the country.”
But the reality is stark:
The tax burden is already the highest it has been in 70 years.
Sterling has lost 25% of its purchasing power in the last decade.
Every new tax or stealth levy is another siphon from your account to theirs.
With a hole this big, the Treasury will squeeze every drop it can from the working and middle classes. Higher income tax thresholds frozen. Capital gains thresholds slashed. Inheritance tax reform shelved indefinitely. And soon, “emergency” measures that will be anything but temporary.
It doesn’t matter who’s in office. When the numbers don’t add up, they will raid the most accessible, most liquid, and most traceable source of wealth: your bank account, your digital transactions, your pension pot.
By moving part of your savings into tax-efficient gold, you legally and quietly place a portion of your wealth outside the reach of the inflation tax and the stealth tax.
British gold coins, such as Britannias and Sovereigns, are exempt from Capital Gains Tax for UK residents.
They hold their value in times when sterling is devaluing.
They are private, tangible, and globally recognised.
When the £50 billion black hole pulls everything in, will your money be protected, or will it be swallowed whole?
Protect your savings before the Chancellor comes for them.