By analogy, taxing income alone might not fill the Treasury's coffers and perhaps we may see changes/increases to indirect taxation in the Autumn Statement?

Also, if capital asset values are leading to greater disparities in wealth and life chances might a government be tempted to increase capital taxes?

Of course, there are many arguments against this including that: capital assets are bought out of already taxed income, capital assets often arise because people are entrepreneurial or they want to make their earned income work harder by investing in stocks, shares or property (thus providing capital to businesses or direct employment to those involved in the property industry); and investors have taken on board risk or that much of the so-called gain is just simply paper inflationary gains (older readers will remember indexation allowance which used to eliminate this part of the gain from taxation).

But if a government wants to prevent the image that it is only fat cats that will continue to drink the majority of the cream then we might see some changes later today...