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  Income Tax - Mitigation of abolition of 10% starting rate - rejected
  
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  The majority of MPs voted against requiring the Chancellor of the Exchequer to state the measures that will be taken to mitigate the effect of the changes to the income tax system (including abolition of the 10% starting rate),[1] and for them to be voted on in the House of Commons before any of it could take effect.[2]
  
  <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> Abolition of starting and savings rates and creation of starting rate for savings, 27 March 2008
   
  *[2] <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-04-28b.93.0">Phillip Hammond MP</a>, House of Commons, 28 April 2008
  
  
  
  
  
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