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  Opposition Day  - Additional Rate of Income Tax
  
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  @ MP voted aye against cutting the income tax rate applied to those earning over Â£150,000 a year.
  @ MP voted no in favour of cutting the income tax rate applied to those earning over Â£150,000 a year.
  
  The majority of MPs voted in favour of cutting the income tax rate applied to those earning over Â£150,000 a year.
  
  
  The motion rejected in this vote was:
  
  :That this House
  :''believes'' it is a mistake to reduce the top rate of income tax at a time when working people, who are on average Â£1,600 a year worse off since 2010, are not feeling the recovery and while the deficit also remains high;
  :''notes'' that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that, by next year, households will be on average Â£974 a year worse off because of tax and benefit changes since 2010;
  :''believes'' that a fair plan to balance the books would reverse the cut in the top rate of income tax, which is worth Â£3 billion a year for the top one per cent of earners, for the next Parliament, and introduce a lower 10p starting rate of tax; and 
  :''calls'' on the Government to rule out a further reduction in the top rate of income tax on earnings over Â£150,000 a year.
  
  
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