Income tax grab on London and South-East hits record £100billion as changes bite
by Nicholas Cecil
Apr 24, 2024
3 minutes
The income tax grab on London and the South-East has topped more than £100 billion a year for the first time, official figures reveal.
They show Londoners paid £59.3 billion to the Treasury in a single year and South-East residents £41.4 billion, just over half the total for the whole of England of £198 billion.
The bill is being driven up by the Chancellor’s stealth tax freeze on the thresholds for paying different rates of
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