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25% of women 'don't benefit from tax allowance boost'
Low-paid workers missed out by 'poorly targeted' measure
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A quarter of women do not earn enough to benefit from the latest rise in the income tax personal allowance, the TUC said yesterday.
The TUC said the government’s policy of raising the amount someone can earn before they start to pay income tax was “expensive and poorly targeted.”
The allowance goes up from £9,440 to £10,000 this month, but it is not enough to help low-paid workers or parents on low to middle incomes, said a congress report.
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