Today 83,000 of the lowest paid taxpayers in the East of England were taken out of tax. Thanks to the £1000 increase in the income tax personal allowance announced at last year’s June Budget, 880,000 of the lowest income taxpayers will today be taken out of tax altogether. Next year a further 220,000 will be taken out of tax. In total the Government’s increases in the income tax allowance, including those coming into effect next
There was an interesting interview with former Norwich MP, Charles Clarke, on the Radio Norfolk breakfast show last week. He’s launching a series of public lectures, at the University of East Anglia, about public policy decisions and the tendency for politicians to delay a decision by putting it in the “too difficult box”. It’s one of the big problems for governments, of all political persuasions. It’s tempting to put off decisions that need making, for
Brandon Lewis