MORE than 24 million workers will pay less tax on their earnings, with the richest in the country also getting some relief on the amount of money paid to the Treasury.
Chancellor George Osborne presented his statement as a "Budget that rewards work" with the key announcement that the income tax threshold will rise to £9205 from next April, an increase of £1100, in a move that will take 840,000 low-paid workers out of taxation and save 24 million people £220 a year.
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