1m more in the 最高の，を越す 税金 bracket

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 00:00 BST, 25 April 2002

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THE number of people 支払う／賃金ing the 最高の，を越す 率 of 税金 has grown by a million since 労働 （機の）カム to 力／強力にする, 公式の／役人 人物／姿／数字s show. The 増加する - to three million - means 抱擁する numbers of ordinary 労働者s such as policemen and teachers are 支払う／賃金ing 40% 税金 on some of their 収入s.

The Inland 歳入 統計（学） were 得るd by Tory MPs, who say they are another example of Gordon Brown's 'stealth 税金s'.

税金 専門家s say part of the 推論する／理由 for the rise is the buoyancy of the economy, which has led to higher 給料. But they also point to the fact the （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 has 終始一貫して failed to raise in line with インフレーション the starting level for 支払う／賃金ing the 最高の，を越す 率, which remains at £34,515. As a result, 260,000 more people will drift into the higher 税金 禁止（する）d in 2003-2004, when the 予算 対策 施行される.

The 人物／姿／数字s, 得るd by former Tory 大臣 Michael Fallon, show that in the year ending 1997, when 労働 （機の）カム to 力／強力にする, there were 2,080,000 higher 率 taxpayers. By the time Brown's 予算 kicks in the total will have risen to a 記録，記録的な／記録する 3,070,000.

Fallon 直面するd Brown with the 人物／姿／数字s on Wednesday during a 審理，公聴会 of the 影響力のある 財務省 Select 委員会, 告発する／非難するing him of deliberately 的ing ordinary people with extra 税金. 'He is dragging a ４半期/4分の1 of a million more people a year into the higher 税金 bracket,' he said. 'He is going to squeeze people for even more 税金 for years to come.'

Brown said that Mr Fallon should look at the 問題／発行する 'the other way'. He 追加するd: 'The 推論する／理由 people are 収入 more is as a result of the success of the economy. They are 収入 more and they are 落ちるing within that bracket.'

In heated 交流s during the 審理，公聴会, Brown also 主張するd there was no '黒人／ボイコット 穴を開ける' in his spending 計画（する）s for the 国家の Health Service. He said his five-year 計画（する） to raise health spending by £40bn was fully covered by the 税金 増加するs 発表するd in his 予算 声明 last week. And he きっぱりと 否定するd a （人命などを）奪う，主張する by the 財政上の think-戦車／タンク the 学校／設ける for 会計の 熟考する／考慮するs (IFS) that he would have to find a その上の £7bn to cover the final two years of the 計画（する）. 'I think the IFS will be in a position, I hope, to 訂正する the wrong impression given about these 人物／姿／数字s,' he told the 委員会.

圧力（をかける）d on the 人物／姿／数字s by Tory MP David Ruffley, Brown said: 'That is 絶対 untrue. When you said there was a 黒人／ボイコット 穴を開ける you were 事実上の／代理 on wrong and erroneous （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）. Our spending on the NHS is a five-year 計画（する）. Our spending is met by 告示s made during the 予算. The IFS are wrong.'

にもかかわらず, the （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 繰り返して 辞退するd to 支配する out 未来 税金 rises. 'No （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 ever 会談 about these things between 予算s,' he said.