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  Income Tax - Abolition of 10% starting rate
  
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  The majority of MPs voted to delete all references to the "starting rate" of taxation[1] in the ''Income Tax Act 2007''.[2]  This left only the "basic rate", whose limit was moved from Â£33,300[3] to Â£36,000 and the "higher rate" of income tax.
  
  This change in taxation was mentioned in the April 2007 budget,[4] but questions about its consequences went unanswered.[5]  
  
  Two months later a law which would have required the Government to produce an assessment of how any change in personal taxation would affect the different income groups was voted down by a majority of MPs.[6]
  
  *[1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-03-18a.757.4#g852.3  Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation], House of Commons, 18 March 2008
  *[2] [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2007/ukpga_20070003_en_1 Income Tax Act 2007]
  *[3] [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2007/ukpga_20070003_en_3#pt2-ch2-pb3-l1g20 Clause 20] of the Income Tax Act 2007
  *[4] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2007-04-30b.1273.0#g1273.3  Julia Goldsworthy MP], House of Commons, 20 April 2007.
  *[5] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2007-06-25e.131114.h Vincent Cable MP, Frank Field MP, Madeleine Moon MP], Parliamentary Written Question, 25 June 2007
  *[6] [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2007-06-25&number=151 Assessment of tax changes across earnings groups], House of Commons, 25 June 2007
  
  
  
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