Most important, the top rate should be charged only on very high incomes.
It says that it wants to clobber the high-paid, but cannot tell us to what level it would raise the top rate of tax.
He gets the top rate for a coal face worker, and that is £3·79.
There can be no economic purpose of raising the top rate of tax.
I have no plans to raise the top rate of tax or the level of national insurance contributions.
There are strong economic arguments as well as strong moral arguments for increasing the top rate of taxation.
Is the top rate of £8,500 now becoming the standard rate for these positions?
We know what the top rate will be, and the effect on earned incomes of about £20,000 and above.