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Woman's Hour
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Is There a Recession Forecast?
When George Osborne introduced austerity, his ratio of cutbacks to tax rises was about 80-20. But when Jeremy Hunt and which he soon at Conveil, the budget later this month, that ratio will be more like 50-50. One of the most likely things they're going to do as Diamas were saying is freeze tax thresholds. That could result in an extra £5 billion a year worth of income taxes being collected without actually changing the rates. And for female listeners who aren't receiving child benefit anymore because their pay or their partner's pay has gone past £50,000 - had that risen in line with inflation, it would be more like £62,000 today
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