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Budget 2007: Sting in the tail of 2p cut

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Budget 2007: Sting tail of 2p cut - The surprise 2p income tax cut appeared leave many better off, but sting tail axed lowest tax rate raised National Insurance Budget 2007: The complete tax tables - How Chancellor's changes will affect you year next, whether you are young single living pension



Budget 2007: Sting in the tail of 2p cut  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
The surprise 2p income tax cut appeared to leave many better off, but a sting in the tail axed the lowest tax rate and raised National Insurance
Budget 2007: The complete tax tables  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
How the Chancellor's changes will affect you this year and next, whether you are young and single or living on a pension
Market report: Thursday latest  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
10.00:One clear loser in Gordon Brown's Budget was Mecca bingo operator Rank as its shares tumbled to a new low for the year
Standard Life to slash 1,000 jobs  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Life and pensions group Standard Life said today it plans to strip another 1,000 jobs from its business over the next two years
The Sony paystation  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
The launch of Sony's Play-Station 3 at midnight tonight has been overshadowed by claims the games console is a rip-off
Council tax 'not broken' claims report  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Homes worth more than £2.5m could pay more council tax under reforms proposed by the long-awaited report into local authority funding
'Supersewer' could add £40 to bills  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Plans for a £2bn 'supersewer' for London were due to be given the go-ahead today - Experts warned the project could add £40 to the average water bill
Budget 2007: What it means to us  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Hardworking couple Kevin and Georgie Sansby see no cause for celebration in the final Gordon Brown Budget, but pensioners could be better off
Budget 2007: Shock income tax cut to 20p  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Families with children and pensioners were clear winners in Gordon Brown's Budget but even with the surprise 2p income tax cut, not everyone will be better off
Budget 2007: Main points at a glance  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown chopped 2p off the basic rate of tax in his eleventh and final Budget. Here is our guide to the main announcements in his Budget speech
Budget 2007: A 50% raid on gambling profits  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
A new 50% tax on the profits of larger casinos will reverse years of favourable treatment for the gambling trade
Another rate rise 'just weeks off'  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
The 11.6m homeowners with mortgages were put on red alert yesterday that a fourth interest rate rise could be just weeks away
Cheap CD imports halted by court  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Music fans will no longer be able to buy cheap CDs and DVDs from internet stores that bring in supplies from outside Europe
Barclays bank scandal exposed  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
A BBC undercover reporter worked at Barclays for four months. She discovered dishonesty, contempt for customers and a ruthless sales culture
Shares turmoil averted a rate rise  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Homeowners were spared another rise in borrowing costs this month as stock market turbulence prompted the Bank of England to hold interest rates at 5.25%, it was revealed today
Barclays plots move to Holland  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Barclays Bank is planning to move its head office to Amsterdam in an effort to persuade Dutch rival ABN Amro to agree to an £80bn merger
20% of new car buyers go green  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
The number of Britons looking to buy 'green' cars has risen three-fold over the past 12 months, a survey has found
Ofcom to probe pay-TV market  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Media regulator Ofcom announced it is to launch an investigation into the pay-TV market in the wake of the BSkyB and Virgin Media battle
Home loans record but 'boom near end'  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Mortgage lending soared to record levels last month, but the boom in the housing market could be drawing to a close
Investors lose £20bn Enron battle  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Three investment banks, including Barclays, have won a landmark victory after a US court threw out a £21bn Enron class action
Sixteen in fight for Sugar's plum job  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
A London Olympics hopeful, a bankrupt entrepreneur and a quantum physicist are among the fresh batch of contestants vying for a job with tycoon Sir Alan Sugar
Hospitals' £95m parking bonanza  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Hospitals were accused of exploiting patients and their families yesterday after it emerged they raked in £95m from car parking fees last year
Gordon assails tax rates  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
The 11th and last budget from Gordon Brown is a blockbuster - He often talks about the challenges of globalisation and now he has set out to meet them
Why we're Browned off  [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Brown has tried to force as many people as possible onto tax credits and means-tested allowances. But those who choose to stand on their own feet have been more highly taxed.