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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Phillip Inman and Richard Partington

IMF urges UK government to reconsider tax-cutting plans

Kwasi Kwarteng.
Kwarteng cut the top rate of tax from 45p to 40p and promised a 1p cut in the basic rate of tax from April next year. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

The International Monetary Fund has launched a stinging attack on the UK’s tax-cutting plans and called on Liz Truss’s government to reconsider them to prevent stoking inequality.

In rare public criticism of a leading global economy, the Washington-based fund said Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget risked undermining the efforts of the Bank of England to tackle rampant inflation amid the cost of living emergency.

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