Sentences with phrase «allowances for the lowest earners»

June's Budget increased the tax allowances for the lowest earners and raised the rate on capital gains — both longstanding party commitments and reforms that the Chancellor, George Osborne, would not have enacted without Liberal Democrat influence.

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An interesting finding in this work is that through interaction with Universal Credit, childcare policy and automatic enrolment in workplace pensions, a higher personal allowance could well be of little benefit for many low earners — and indeed could damage future prospects in terms of their pensions.

Tax Measures The parties agree that the personal allowance for income tax should be increased in order to help lower and middle income earners.

He also outlined the much - touted tax sweetener for lower income earners, with plans to raise personal allowances for basic rate tax payers by # 1,000 to # 7,475 from next April - exempting some 880,000 Britons from income tax altogether.

Personal allowance increase welcome for higher earners but of no benefit to those on the lowest incomes

Personal allowance increase welcome for higher earners but of no benefit to those on the lowest incomes The Chancellor has announced today in the Budget that having gone up to # 11,000 in the tax year beginning 6 April 2016, the personal allowance will rise again to # 11,500 in 2017/18.

He understood the arguments for raising the allowance but he favoured simultaneous clawbacks from higher earners so that it was genuinely lower - paid households who benefited.

The parties agree that the personal allowance for income tax should be increased in order to help lower and middle income earners.