We’ll clobber mansion owners to cut tax for the poor, warns Ed Balls
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Clifford Armion
le 24/09/2013
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The Shadow Chancellor used his keynote speech to the Labour conference in Brighton to promise that a “mansion tax” will be slapped on large properties if the party wins the next election.He said an annual levy on homes worth £2million or more would pay for reintroducing the 10p income tax rate for low-income earners.
But critics said a mansion tax would only raise £1.5billion a year towards a total of £7billion needed to fund the income tax cut. Tory sources said more modest properties, worth as little as £415,000, would be caught by the tax.
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"We’ll clobber mansion owners to cut tax for the poor, warns Ed Balls", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), septembre 2013. Consulté le 16/04/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/we-ll-clobber-mansion-owners-to-cut-tax-for-the-poor-warns-ed-balls