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(happy) Tax Freedom Day 2021

As of June 2024, this is out of date. Please refer to Tax Freedom Day 2024 for the updated statistics.

A very happy Tax Freedom Day 2021 to you. Sadly it is getting later and later each year. And with the grand plans of our political masters ranging from train tracks costing over £100bn, a new Royal Yacht, and the as yet undefined Levelling-Up agenda, not to mention the pandemic, it looks like we’re set for Tax Freedom Day falling later and later still for the foreseeable.

Yet it does not need to be this way. It is a pure political choice to accept the Conservative Party forcing the country to work for the taxman more than they did even under Gordon Brown.

Learn more about how we calcuate Tax Freedom Day here.