Britain’s tax burden will rise to its highest level for over 50 years after the chancellor announced significant tax hikes to deal with the consequences of the pandemic. Delivering the annual budget in the House of Commons on March 3, Rishi Sunak, the chancellor of the Exchequer, said that corporation tax will be raised to 25 percent from 19 percent from 2023, by which time he predicted the economy should be past the COVID-19 crisis. Sunak also said he would freeze the amount of money that people can earn tax-free and the threshold for the higher rate of income tax at the 2021/22 level until April 2026. According to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the tax rises will increase the tax burden to 35 percent of GDP in 2025/26, its highest level since the late 1960s. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think tank said the tax hikes will …