Tax changes "leave 18 million families worse off"
                   
reuters.com     21-May-2008            

LONDON (Reuters) - Around 18 million families will be 150 pounds a year worse off on average over the next two years despite last week's emergency budget, experts said on Wednesday, fuelling a political row over government tax policy. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said Chancellor Alistair... [read full story]                

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