Sir Keir Starmer plans to grow the economy by increasing the Income Tax Self Assessment reporting threshold for trading income from £1,000 to £3,000, sparing around 300,000 side hustlers from filing tax returns. Of these, approximately 90,000 individuals will owe no tax, and the rest can pay any tax owed through a new online service. Tax minister James Murray will announce these changes, as well as plans to ease import restrictions on valuable objects, at a speech marking the 20th anniversary of HMRC.
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