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  Finance Bill (carry over)
  
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  @ MP voted aye to raise the tax free income tax allowance, reduce corporation tax and recover child benefit from couples where an individual earns over Â£50,000. 
  @ MP voted no against raising the tax free income tax allowance, against reducing corporation tax and against recovering child benefit from couples where an individual earns over Â£50,000. 
  
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted for proceedings on the Finance Bill 2012 to continue if interrupted by the end of the Parliamentary session. 
  
  Those MPs voting for the Bill to be carried over were voting in favour of the Bill's key provisions which included:
  
  
  * To provide for an income tax for 2012-13
  * To set the income tax rates, at 10% for the starting rate for savings, 20% for the basic rate, 40% for the higher rate and 50% for the additional rate applying to income over Â£150,000
  * The threashold for starting to pay the higher rate of income tax is reduced from Â£35,000 to Â£34,370
  * The income tax free personal allowance for those under 65 years old is increased form Â£7,475 to Â£8,105
  * Starts the process of phasing out the additional tax free personal allowance for those over 65.
  * The main rate of Corporation Tax is reduced from 25 to 24%
  * The small profits rate of Corporation Tax unchanged at 20% 
  * A new tax to recover child benefit from the highest earning individual in a couple where one member of the couple earns over Â£50,000 is introduced. 
  * To increase Air Passenger Duty
  
  
  The motion approved by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That if, at the conclusion of this Session of Parliament, proceedings on the Finance (No. 4) Bill have not been completed, they shall be resumed in the next Session.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/financeno4.html Parliament's webpage on the Finance Bill, now the Finance Act 2012]
  * [2] [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/179306/fb2012_explanatory_notes.pdf.pdf Explanatory notes to the Bill]
  
  
  
  
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