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  Income Tax - Abolition of starting and savings rates and creation of starting rate for savings
  
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  The majority of MPs voted to keep the clause in the Finance Bill 2008 abolishing the 10% starting rate of income tax, among other things.[1]
  
  <p>The abolition of the 10p rate for the lowest earners had been announced in the 2007 budget, along with a surprise 2p cut in the basic rate of income tax to 20p in the pound but there was concern that this would severely effect those on the lowest incomes. (See <a href="http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/tax/income/article.html?in_article_id=418667&in_page_id=77">here</a> for more detail).</p>
  
  *[1] [<a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmbills/089/08089.1-4.html#j0980">Finance Bill</a>], Clause 3
  
  
  
  
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