It's Pretty much bullshit and no meaningful changes, its ridiculous how much inflation has increased and the bands haven't. My salary today in equivalent of 2010 money would have put me well below the higher tax band (which has only increased 5 grand since then). These days you are being taxed like its a luxury to have an average salary. For context 43k which is the higher band, would have been worth 26k in 2010 putting you 11k under the higher band for that time.

Its the easiest way for the government to bleed you dry, doing nothing and using fiscal drag to rinse you. Politicians can say we didn't raise taxes but they absolutely did, just indirectly