» Thursday, April 3, 2008

Income Tax

Asked whether the Prime Minister was concerned about the depth of feeling amongst Labour MPs on the decision to cut the 10p rate of income tax, the PMS said that the Prime Minister’s position on the 10p rate of income tax was as it always had been. In the Budget last year there was a significant reform of the personal tax system. It involved significant increases in tax credits with part of it directed at low-income workers. Since 1997 and as a result of all the benefit changes taking effect, people on low incomes were significantly better off.

original source.

Briefing took place at 11:00 | Search for related news

2 Comments »

  1. You may like to inform the Prime Minister that my Wife who works 30 hrs a week and earns less than £10k will have to pay more thanks to his abolition of the 10p tax threshold.This for a lady who was a soldiers wife for 22yrs and has worked all her life save for 5 years when our Daughter was young,and no we have never claimed any kind of “benefits” we’ve only put into the system.When this Government is thrown out at the next election this is one of the reasons that will be a factor in your demise,isn’t it time to look after the the hard workers of this country instead of pandering to the workshy scroungers.
    An ex labour voter.

    Comment by Kenneth O'Boyle — 5 Apr 2008 on 3:15 am | Link
  2. Thank you very much Mr Brown. Just received my pension statement this morning. The tax on my hard earned pension has just doubled….which kisses goodbye to the small increase…..Lower income members of society paying the price of ill thought out policies yet again.

    Comment by Mike Hammond — 7 Apr 2008 on 12:47 pm | Link

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Post a public comment

(You must give an email address, but it will not be displayed to the public.)
(You may give your website, and it will be displayed to the public.)

Comments:

This is not a way of contacting the Prime Minister. If you would like to contact the Prime Minister, go to the 10 Downing Street official site.

Privacy note: Shortly after posting, your name and comment will be displayed on the site. This means that people searching for your name on the Internet will be able to find and read your comment.

Downing Street Says...

The unofficial site which lets you comment on the UK Prime Minister's official briefings. About us...

Search


April 2008
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
« Mar   May »
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930  

Supported by

mySociety.org

Disruptive Proactivity

Recent Briefings


Archives

Links

Syndicate (RSS/XML)

Credits

Enquiries

Contact Sam Smith.

This site is powered by WordPress. Theme by Jag Singh