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by Lib Dem team on 26 January, 2012
The Lib Dems in Government are leading the way in pushing for those on low and middle incomes to pay less tax, funded by those at the top paying a bit more.
As the Lib Dem website explains:
Imagine a mum who works 3 days a week as a teaching assistant – earning £10,000 a year or just over £190 a week. Under Labour she paid more than £1,000 in income tax and national insurance. Although she wanted to work more days a week she knew it was not financially worth it. Under Labour; once tax, tax credits and housing benefit has been deducted, for every extra pound she earned she was able to keep just 10.5p.
Under our plan she would see her income tax bill cut to zero making her £700 a year better off.
This is a Lib Dem policy, putting more money in the pockets of those who need it most, and it’s just one of a whole range of things the Lib Dems are doing in Government to make the system better and fairer:
As part of this Coalition, Liberal Democrats are calling time on our unfair and out-of-whack tax system.
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