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Add blog post: the fuel duty cut extension in the Autumn Budget 2026 #1459

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Add blog post: the Pension Tax Allowance, step by step
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
08660ef
Draw the Pension Tax Allowance post's charts as line chart blocks
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
e3df3c5
Add a net income change chart and put the PTA by tax year first
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
63edc5d
Describe the worked examples by income, without the explainer's names
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
cc8f085
Use the Chancellor's official portrait as the post's cover
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
ff7bc60
Show net income with and without the PTA, not the change
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
bd76380
Size the line chart's y axis to its longest tick label
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
0447472
Move the net income chart between income tax and marginal rates
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
f789ce6
Add blog post: the fuel duty cut extension, step by step
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
0f55038
Use a Geograph photo of petrol pumps as the fuel duty post's cover
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
eafdb46
Add net income and benefit interactions, and a title-card cover
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
047adc4
Revise the PTA post after a full review of the model and method
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
5b6eb05
Shorten the wording on the £94 full allowance
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
92708f6
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/pavel/pension-tax-allowance-post…
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
0341ab6
Use an original vector illustration as the PTA post's cover
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
6e9ee9c
Rename the PTA cover so caches load the new illustration
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
877e1ef
Show the net income chart around the PTA range again, not from £0
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
abf0740
Put line chart marker labels above the plot; align the PTA chart ranges
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
ddeee5f
Revise the fuel duty post after an audit and the PTA review standards
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
3dfc476
Add Universal Credit to the PTA benefits table; trim the chart sources
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
fb90f16
Split the benefits paragraph so Universal Credit has its own
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
7182a6a
Show real couple cases for Universal Credit and the PTA
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
9bf5522
Explain why the fuel duty measure does not reach other programmes
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
5af556a
Run the PTA post on the OBR October 2026 forecast, as the dashboard does
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
2b53029
Address Max's second review of the PTA post
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
b1c3b7b
Add the dashboard's provisional population results for fuel duty
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
9e4280c
Round the PTA post's figures to whole pounds outside the worked tables
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
b5bbdc8
Number and simplify the benefits table; qualify the over-75 loss
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
ed131f9
Keep signs with their numbers in the PTA post's tables
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
aff4a88
Apply Max's review: whole pounds, a weekly table, the Treasury gap
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
5659ed3
Add the dashboard calculator's commuter as a worked example
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
1e2e589
Add population results to the PTA post
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
0a14414
Use two decimals on the decile share chart's labels
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
7f82d3a
Add the measure's reach and link the dashboard's final URL
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
8413192
Group the PTA post into household and population impacts
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
fac5dbb
Drop the provisional label from the population results
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
e23c33d
Say that we reproduced the population results in our own run
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
59815bd
Let bar charts hide value labels; drop "provisional" from the PTA post
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
b97efa1
Finish Max's review: reach as households, whole-pound State Pension
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
cdeb356
Add a line chart type for blog posts, and valueLabels for bar charts
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
1391cd6
Merge the line chart branch (#1462) into the PTA post
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
40799c7
Give the household fuel duty base in the Treasury gap text
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
932ae46
Keep line chart axis labels, axis title and legend apart
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
fc712d6
Merge branch 'pavel/blog-line-chart' into pavel/pension-tax-allowance…
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
6e717c2
Show the measure on its own in the net income table, per Max
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
17d5de9
Round the PTA post's worked tables to whole pounds
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
40333ce
Add a footnote under the PTA budgetary table: both estimates are static
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
11b2896
Show the PTA's total cost to government in the budgetary table
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
d37a09f
Split the cost table into duty, VAT and total, with a basis footnote
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
c3dcd77
Say that the Treasury's PTA figure covers income tax only
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
8a28327
Neutral wording and absolute poverty in the PTA post
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
1f7cb22
Language review: state figures, give the Treasury as context
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
6509893
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/pavel/pension-tax-allowance-post…
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
879d7f1
Apply the PTA post's standards: rounding notes, poverty measure, labels
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
2c0bc98
Add the dashboard calculator's pensioner and Max's smaller fixes
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
4ea5d81
Shorten bar chart labels so every label shows at 375px
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
31816f6
Population results: people counts, benefit split and the OBR figures
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
262549a
State that the Treasury figure covers fuel duty receipts only
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
83ed37b
Note the calculator's unrounded State Pension for household 9
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
dbf7471
Shorten the budgetary table footnote to the static point
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
6f402b9
Shorten the cost table footnote to the static-dynamic line
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
75678f1
Say that the OBR's income tax figures and PolicyEngine's total cost m…
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
d0e5d30
Show the rounding up in the PTA value step: £93.28 to £94
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
d282ef8
Say which households the average gains in 2028-29 and 2029-30 cover
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
17edfd5
Audit fixes: Gini basis, £230 note, assumptions wording, OBR link
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
8a9628e
Move explainers and technical detail into an appendix
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
6a148a9
Move the PTA post's technical detail into an appendix
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
544f8f1
Retitle the PTA post: The Pension Tax Allowance in the Autumn Budget …
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
ecb7b9a
Final audit fixes: October net income, Gini, uprating, sources
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
e3a4bee
Title the post 'The fuel duty cut extension in the Autumn Budget 2026'
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
6df8990
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/pavel/pension-tax-allowance-post…
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
42a6de0
Say that the pensioner gets no Pension Credit
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
da89d29
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into claude/fuel-duty-post…
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
be1b1cf
Decile charts: values from the dashboard's calculators at #290's 9b98…
MaxGhenis Oct 28, 2026
0ddbe9b
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into claude/fuel-duty-post…
PavelMakarchuk Oct 28, 2026
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