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Mirrlees Review: means testing and tax rates on earnings

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The first part of a study, commissioned for the Mirrlees Review of the British tax system, looks at how Britain's tax credit and benefit system could be overhauled to strengthen work incentives for people on low incomes, to increase simplicity and certainty for families, and to reduce fraud and admi...

21 April 2008