NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
The Chancellor has warned that he will be acting like famous miser Scrooge this Christmas, with ‘horrible decisions’ ahead about tax and spending.
As headlines predicted the threshold at which people pay the highest rate of income tax would be lowered, Jeremy Hunt did little to dispel the speculation.
He told Sky News this morning that we’re all going to be paying a bit more tax’ following the autumn budget on November 17.
On who will be required to bear the brunt of the extra costs, he said the Government will be asking ‘everyone for sacrifices’, but said Britain is a ‘compassionate’ country, insisting ‘there’s only so much you can ask from people on the very lowest incomes’.