text_body: --- DIVISION TITLE ---
  
  Assessment of tax changes across earnings groups - rejected
  
  --- MOTION EFFECT ---
  
  The majority of MPs voted against requiring the Government to publish an assessment of the effects of any proposed change in personal taxation -- broken down by earnings group -- and arrange for transitional relief if it is going to have an adverse effect on the lowest earnings group.[1]
  
  This law would have been included in the Finance Bill, the law which puts the Chancellor's budget to effect.[2] 
  
  A Parliamentary Written Question attempting to elicit the information contained within such a report was published on the same day.[3]
  
  Although Julia Goldsworthy (Conservative) proposed this new clause, along with Vince Cable (Libdem) and Frank Field (Labour),[4] all Conservative MPs were absent from the division, apart from Bob Spink.
  
  *[1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2007-06-25b.108.0 Frank Field MP], House of Commons, 25 June 2007
  *[2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/pabills/200607/finance.htm Finance Bill 2006-07]
  *[3] [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
  *[4] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmbills/120/amend/pb1202506m.1442-1447.html New Clause 14], Consideration of Bill, 25 June 2007.
  
  
  
  --- COMMENTS AND NOTES ---
  
  (put thoughts and notes for other researchers here)
  