UK Drops Tax Cut Plan After Pound Collapses

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The UK dropped a plan to cut taxes for top earners after it prompted turmoil in financial markets. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from NBCNews, FoxBusiness and BBCNews: LizTruss Kwarteng

The British government has scrapped plans of cutting taxes on the wealthy, a move that prompted turmoil in financial markets and led to record lows for the pound.

Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng said Monday he would no longer pursue plans to eliminate the top 45% rate of income tax paid on earnings above 150,000 pounds, or $167,000 a year. "We get it, and we have listened," he said in a statement, adding that"it is clear that the abolition of the 45p tax rate has become a distraction from our overriding mission...

 

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