Sentences with phrase «cent of earners»

An even higher minimum wage, cancelling cuts to inheritance tax or to income tax for the top fifteen per cent of earners all may make wider political and longer term economic sense.

The populist - and popular - pledge to soak the richest five per cent of earners while protecting everyone else has allowed them to pledge vote - winning funding for cash - starved schools and hospitals and the party's headline vow to axe tuition fees.

«If you go back to the Eighties, when the top rate was cut to 40 per cent, the percentage of tax taken from the top five per cent of earners went up.»

The average hourly wage difference between the richest 10 per cent and the poorest 10 per cent of earners in grammar school areas is over four pounds more than in non-selective areas.

Their research — «Gender and the Tournament: Reinventing Antidiscrimination Law in an Age of Inequality» — uncovered the amazing (or not) fact that U.S. women in the top 95 per cent of earners make only 73.8 per cent of men's take - home pay.

Surely we should ask if it's fair that the maximum amount that you can get on housing benefit is set at a level that only the top five per cent of earners would otherwise be able to afford.

That move follows a suggestion by Mr Clegg's close adviser David Laws, the former chief secretary to the Treasury, that higher rate pensions tax relief could be cut from 40 % to 20 % for the top five per cent of earners - those earning over around # 60,000.

After all, some in the press had suggested that the Labour leader would struggle to oppose a measure that only penalised the top 15 per cent of earners.

Lord Browne said the new proposals meant that the bottom 20 per cent of earners will pay less than under the current system and only the top 40 per cent of earners would pay back close to the full amount for their degrees.