Overview

• A TikTok post falsely claimed Chancellor Rachel Reeves planned a new window tax, sparking widespread misinformation online.
• The UK Treasury has explicitly denied the claim, labeling it as fake news and confirming no such tax proposal exists.
• Fact-checking investigations by multiple outlets found no evidence of a window tax in government announcements, records, or credible reports.
• The last historical window tax was repealed in 1851, and recent parliamentary mentions of the term 'window' were unrelated to taxation.
• The viral claim highlights the growing trend of misinformation using historical precedents to lend credibility to false narratives.