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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

London’s income tax bombshell hits a record £51.6 billion

London’s income tax bill has soared to a record £51 billion with 11 boroughs paying more to Treasury coffers than any region outside of the South East, official figures revealed on Thursday.

Kensington had the biggest income tax bill of any constituency of nearly £3.5 billion, more than the whole of Northern Ireland put together.

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