Taxation: Income Tax Debate

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Lord Howarth of Newport

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Taxation: Income Tax

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NHS: Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust
Monday 24th June 2013

(10 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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My Lords, I do not have that figure immediately to hand, but it was very significant. It was more than the potential loss of revenue from reducing the top rate of tax.

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My Lords, Colbert famously said that the art of taxation is to raise the maximum of revenue with the minimum of squawking. This Government are raising their revenue with a maximum of purring. Should that not make us suspicious?

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No, my Lords.

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