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In his announcement yesterday, Mr Sunak said the income tax personal allowance – the threshold above which people are required to pay income tax – will be frozen at £12,570 from 2022. The freeze will continue until 2026.<\/p>\n
Mr Sunak defended the tax changes, saying they represented “a fair way to help solve the problems that we need to”.<\/p>\n
By 2025 one in six people will be higher rate taxpayers following the freeze on thresholds.<\/p>\n
The figure compares to one in 15 in 1990.<\/p>\n
But now Brexiteer Rupert Lowe has demanded Whitehall make some cuts following a “staggering” report last year which revealed more than 1,500 civil servants are earning £100,000 or more a year.<\/p>\n
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Mr Lowe tweeted: “Reports last year stated that 1,560 civil servants are earning £100k or more. Staggering.<\/p>\n
“Before attacking the private sector even more, why not look closer to home for making savings?<\/p>\n
“Very easy for them to be on the big money from our taxes.<\/p>\n
“Time for some Whitehall cuts.”<\/p>\n
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The report last year found the number of Whitehall staff on £100,000 or more had gone up by 15 percent in just 12 months.<\/p>\n
Official figures showed a record 1,560 civil servants are paid at least three times the national average salary.<\/p>\n
Richard Holden MP, who worked on Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign in 2019, said at the time: “With six-figure salaries shooting up and work from home the norm – it’s clear the civil service are increasingly out of touch with the public and going against the clear instructions of the Government.<\/p>\n
“It’s time for the senior leadership of the civil service to shape up or ship out sharpish.”<\/p>\n
DON’T MISS <\/strong> Steve Baker, former Brexit minister, also urged the Government to be “realistic” about civil servant’s pay.<\/p>\n He said: “We do need great people in the civil service but we’ve got to be realistic about their pay.<\/p>\n “Most of my constituents would think £50,000 a year is an enormous amount of money, never mind £150,000.<\/p>\n “They would be astonished to learn that their taxes are paying more than 1,500 civil servants that amount.<\/p>\n “The sheer scale of top pay in the civil service demonstrates the importance of decentralising power and privatising functions – we just can’t afford all of this Government.”<\/p>\n Following Mr Sunak’s Budget announcement, Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), lashed out at the Chancellor.<\/p>\n Mr Johnson said when the recent cuts to public spending announced last autumn were taken into account, the Chancellor announced fiscal tightening of almost £50billion relative to his pre-pandemic plans of March 2020.<\/p>\n He argued that two big tax increases announced in the budget were “both screeching U-turns on Conservative policy over the last decade”.<\/p>\n And on corporation tax, set to jump from 19 percent to 23 percent in 2023, he said it would be a rise of “historic proportions”.<\/p>\n Mr Johnson said: “Santa Sunak, purveyor of billions today looks more like Scrooge Sunak.”<\/p>\n He added: “How he is actually going to fix the public finances remains to be seen.”<\/p>\n
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