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UK's Hunt to delay another tax cut to plug 72 billion stg black hole-Sunday Times

Published 10/15/2022, 01:30 PM
Updated 10/15/2022, 01:35 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People cross Waterloo Bridge during the evening rush-hour with skyscrapers of the City of London financial district seen behind in London, Britain, October 10, 2022.  REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's new finance minister Jeremy Hunt is to delay a planned reduction to the basic rate of income tax by one year after the country's fiscal watchdog warned that the public finances were in a worse state than expected, the Sunday Times reported.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People cross Waterloo Bridge during the evening rush-hour with skyscrapers of the City of London financial district seen behind in London, Britain, October 10, 2022.  REUTERS/Toby Melville

The newspaper said Hunt would put off for a year a plan to reduce the basic rate of income tax next April, to save 5 billion pounds ($5.6 billion) a year. It said Hunt needed to plug a black hole in the public finances of 72 billion pounds.

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