Govt rules out tax cuts and eyes new non-dom levy

Scott Sinclair
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David Cameron has ruled out significant tax cuts while the government is cutting spending to reduce the deficit.

In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the prime minister said he wanted to offer people relief, but suggested that would only be possible "at the end of this hard road". The Chancellor, George Osborne, has been facing calls to reduce the burden on hard-pressed voters as inflation spirals ahead of the Budget on 23 March. The Tory mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has urged him to set out how taxes could be reduced. Cameron insisted there was no "plan B" on the coalition's deficit-reduction strategy and said tax cuts would only undo the work of painful curbs in public spending. "I...

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