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...Polling suggests the levy is unpopular with voters, and cutting it is also deemed to be largely non-inflationary....
...Hunt had been under pressure from Tory MPs to go further and instead cut income tax, a levy more easily understood by voters....
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...The chancellor said eventually the Conservatives would seek to get rid of the levy altogether, even though senior Tories admit that cutting income tax would be more popular with voters....
...or a “save our NHS” levy or whatever thing that will look a lot like national insurance to claw it back with....
...Sunak said on Friday he also liked NI cuts because the levy was a “tax on work” and — unlike income tax — a reduction would apply across the whole UK. Each 1p cut in income tax costs about £7bn....
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...The charge was announced in 2010 by then-chancellor George Osborne during the coalition government’s austerity drive and came into effect from 2013....
...However, Tory officials said reductions in IHT — a levy described by Hunt as “pernicious” — were not off the table and that all tax decisions would be taken nearer the time of the Budget....
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