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Budget 2016: You Pay In, Billionaires Get Payout

MILLIONAIRE George Osborne made the poor and disabled pay for his economic failures in yesterday’s Budget even as he handed another huge tax cut to Britain’s wealthiest and big business.

The Chancellor used the Budget to slash the corporation tax rate for the second consecutive year at a cost to taxpayers of £1 billion.

He took another £2.5 billion from the Treasury to cut the top rate of capital gains tax on assets such as shares from 28 to 20 per cent.

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