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Your Questions

The Budget: what do you actually want to know?

The Chancellor has delivered her statement. Now our economics team wants to hear from you — what does this budget mean for your life, your business, your family? Ask us anything.

The Autumn Budget landed this week with more than a few surprises. Income tax thresholds have been unfrozen for the first time in four years, fuel duty is rising, and the Chancellor has announced a new levy on second homes that has already divided opinion sharply.

Our economics team has been across every line of the Budget document since it was published. But the questions that matter most are not always the ones that make the front page. They are the ones sitting in your inbox, your kitchen table conversation, your small business spreadsheet.

Send us your question below. Every submission is read by a real journalist. We will publish answers to the most common and most important questions on this page, and our reporters may reach out directly if your situation would help illustrate a broader story.

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