UK. New tax raid on pensions: OUTRAGE at Hammond’s plans to fill £2billion budget blackhole
After a bruising week where the Chancellor had to reverse a planned tax on the self employed from his Budget, he has identified pensions as “top of his list” to raise funds.
But former pensions minister Baroness Altmann has warned that the move could have political consequences by hitting the Tory party’s core vote.
And Ukip has called on him to dip into the protected £12 billion aid budget to help fund care for the elderly instead of spending taxpayers’ cash in corrupt foreign countries.
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