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With effect from April 2008, the main tax band is reduced from 22p to 20p in the pound, which is good news. However, at the same time the lower tax band is being abolished, whereby the first £2230 of taxable income (in 2007-08 allowances) was taxed only at 10p in the pound. This means that from April 2008 someone earning £500 a week will be about £8 a month better off, someone earning £400 a week will pay about the same, but someone earning only £150 a week will pay approximately £20 a month more in tax. We urge the Chancellor and Prime Minister to acknowledge that this is an unfortunate consequence that they had not envisaged, to realise the extent to which this will hurt families on lower incomes, and to reverse this policy at the earliest opportunity. This would cost very little, and would be appreciated by the poor as welcome relief, and by the better off as just and reasonable.

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• Victor Barrett
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• jez
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• CLAIRE BLUE
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• Roger King
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• Stewart Pearson
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• SUSAN WATSON
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• CLAIRE RULE
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• tina morris
• Muhammad Adam
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• David Greaves
• Maureen Newland
• BILL EDWARDS
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• John Latham
• karen kane
• A J Green
• Dan Garland
• dawn mcelhinney
• Terence Downey
• Irene Golby
• Kyle Opheim
• Rebecca Denholm
• Mark mcevoy
• Paul Gregory (petitions.number10.gov.uk/taxbandreform)
• Arlene Flexman
• deborah barrett
• DEREK AUBURN
• Brian Cox
• Peter Winnall
• Jonathan Watton
• Tim Miller
• iolanda masuccio
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• Graham Mitchell
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• sally callaghan
• Matthew Ridley
• Carmel Haddock
• PAUL RUSHWORTH
• kate Perkins
• Frederick A Jones
• jackie fletcher
• Vicky Owen
• Shelly Bartlett
• Paul Spencer
• leonie rainey
• ANDY RAY
• M. Beechey-Newman
• jo beale
• Dan Spencer
• David Penn
• John Mangan
• Gareth Perch
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• Mandy Govier
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• Marianne Ibbotson
• Carole Coppard
• Magda Jekot
• Barbara Smith
• Sandra Kay
• Liam Hannan
• nicola shackleton
• Douglas Gray
• Lisa Bradley
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• Mike Lewis
• Alastair Murdoch
• terence reilly
• david campbell
• Raymond Blackie
• Vicki Naylor
• Alan McBryde
• Jeremy Kiernan
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• Bobby Carlin
• Isabel Agnew
• David Waters
• Nick Grosvenor
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• Philip David Edson
• Carole Sawford
• Rebecca Taylor

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