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The Chancellor must plug a £50 billion black hole in the nation’s public finances, with at least a 2p hike to the basic rate of income tax likely to be needed, a major economic think tank has warned.
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr) has further raised the spectre of tax increases at the
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