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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Blewett

Kwarteng ‘betting the house’ with tax plans helping only those on above £155k

PA Wire

Kwasi Kwarteng is “betting the house” and putting national debt on an “unsustainable rising path” with vast tax cuts that only benefit those earning more than £155,000, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

The respected financial think tank accused the Chancellor of detailing the biggest package of cuts in 50 years “without even a semblance of an effort to make the public finance numbers add up”.

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