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  Finance (No. 2) Bill - Second Reading
  
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  @ MP voted aye for a range of tax and pensions provisions including keeping key income tax rates unchanged and to increase the normal pension age to 57 from 6 April 2028.
  
  @ MP voted no against a range of tax and pensions provisions including keeping key income tax rates unchanged and against raising the normal pension age to 57 from 6 April 2028.
  
  The majority of MPs voted for a range of tax and pensions provisions including keeping key income tax rates unchanged and raising the normal pension age to 57 from 6 April 2028.
  
  MPs were considering the Finance (No. 2) Bill.[1][2][3]
  
  The motion supported by a majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That the Bill be now read a Second time.
  
  The passing of this motion enabled the Bill to continue on its path to becoming law.  
  
  The Bill included:
  
  * A provision to impose income tax during the tax year 2022-23
  * To set the 2022-2023 rates for income tax at: Basic rate - 20%; Higher rate - 40%; Additional rate - 45%. (No change on the previous year)
  * To increase the tax rates on taxed dividend income. 
  * To retain the threshold for starting to tax interest on savings at Â£5,000. 
  * To introduce a new rule for businesses started after 31 March in a year, treating profits and losses arising in that year as arising in the following year. 
  * To increase the the normal minimum pension age to 57 from 6 April 2028
  
  
  
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  * [1] [https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3060 Parliament's webpage on the Finance (No. 2) Bill], Parliament.uk
  * [2] [https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/43399/documents/874 The Finance (No. 2) Bill (as introduced), 4 November 2021], Parliament.uk
  * [3] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0184/en/210184en.pdf Explanatory notes to the Finance (No. 2) Bill], Parliament.uk
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