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Campaigners set out proposals for a better deal for low-income taxpayers
Academy of Medical Sciences

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David Willetts' The Pinch addresses the impact of the baby-boomers
Interview: David Willetts

It’s taken David Willetts two years to sum up the problems facing Britain in the coming two decades. By Alex Stevenson The Conservative ex-minister, who currently holds the higher education portfolio in David Cameron’s shadow Cabinet, takes a philosophical view of the rigours of being out of government. Apart from anything else, it opens up… Read more »

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Taxes for older people need fine-tuning, report says
‘Tax chaos’ for elderly

By Emmeline Saunders Older people may be paying too much or too little tax, a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. The NAO estimates that by March this year, due to discrepancies between HM Revenue and Customs’ records and tax deducted by employers and pension providers, 1.5 million people had overpaid an… Read more »