Today's story: Healey is preparing to raise taxes on British banks. You will hear it in Spanish first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in Spanish: Healey prepara una subida de impuestos a los bancos británicos
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:33) More stories today
(01:43) Today's headline, slowly
(02:28) Paying money
(03:13) A plan to reduce
(03:44) Changing a tax rate
(04:27) Today's grammar point
(05:01) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/spanish/a1/2026-10-16
TODAY'S SPANISH TEXT
Healey prepara una subida de impuestos a los bancos británicos
John Healey prepara una subida del impuesto extra que pagan los bancos sobre sus beneficios.
El presupuesto es el 28 de octubre.
El gobierno quiere reducir el déficit.
Una opción es subir el impuesto del 3% al 8%.
La medida puede recaudar más de 2.000 millones de libras al año.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- verb (pagar)
- vocabulary (octubre)
- vocabulary (quiere)
- vocabulary (del)
- vocabulary (recaudar)
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