Budget 2012: 50p rate cut to 45p in April 2013

Scott Sinclair
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The 50p top rate of income tax will be reduced to 45p from April next year, Chancellor George Osborne announced this afternoon.

Delivering his Budget address this afternoon, Osborne said the existing 50p rate was the highest in the G20 and widely acknowledged as "harming the British economy". He said the government had r...

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