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Five million pensioners take £260 a year hit in £3bn 'hidden' raid after tax allowances are changed
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Dr Ros Altmann, Director-General, Saga said: 'This is an outrageous assault on decent middle-class pensioners.
'This Budget contains an enormous stealth tax for older people. Over the next five years, pensioners with an income of between £10,000 and £24,000 will be paying an extra £3 billion in tax while richer pensioners are left unaffected.
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there will be a 3.02p per litre hike in fuel duty from August.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...idden-tax.html
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I would love to see what happens if the UK population wouldn't smoke for a month and see what George tries to do then
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Just a quick guesstimate: now 78% of the price of a pack of fags goes straight back to the exchequer.
http://www.the-tma.org.uk/tma-public...arette-prices/