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Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

My Lords, what I said was that I would scrutinise the tax relief available for the building up of pensions which costs £32 billion, of which at least £8 billion comes from the fact that people on higher rate incomes get higher rate tax relief. That is what I said I would scrutinise: not money from pensioners, but from the way that pension savings are artificially supported by tax relief, two-thirds of which goes to the better off.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
743 c552 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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