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C N Morris
In July, the research staff of the Institute for Fiscal Studies produced an index, the Gross Earnings Deflator (GED), which was designed to show how much, on average, the gross earnings of the working population need to increase to compensate them for changes in inflation and the tax system. The government's new Taxes and Prices Index (TPI), first published in August, is similar in intention and construction
J A Kay and C N Morris
There were two principal elements to the June 1979 budget. One was the very substantial reductions which were made in the higher rates of income tax.
Christopher Johnson
A few years ago it looked as if the North Sea tax system, like other aspects of UK oil policy, might succumb to that national weakness of ours known as 'adversary politics'.
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