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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil and Jitendra Joshi

Autumn Statement: Hunt would 'risk fuelling inflation with tax cuts putting money quickly in people’s pockets'

Jeremy Hunt will fuel inflation if he announces a tax cut which “puts money quickly in people’s pockets,” leading economists warned on Monday.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies argued that now is not the time for “big net tax cuts” as the Government has been mulling lower income tax, inheritance tax or National Insurance, as well as reducing business levies in the Autumn Statement.

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