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Opinion: Lo-Tax for the Lib Dems

By Tony Vickers | Tue 5th March 2013 - 2:32 pm

Raising the tax-free personal allowance is the Lib Dems’ headline contribution to this Government – so popular that the Tories are trying to claim it as theirs! But when Danny Alexander said that our next manifesto should include a promise to raise and peg the personal allowance to the National Minimum Wage (almost £13,000) he was setting his tax policy working group a challenge: to find £12bn a year from elsewhere.

According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies this isn’t progressive. Highest earners and others benefit, while …

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged ALTER and land value tax | 38 Comments

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