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By Voice of the Mirror Christmas is a time for giving. Unless you are Jeremy Hunt. For him, every season is for taking away. The Chancellor’s freeze on personal allowances is the equivalent of 4p on the basic rate, leaving workers with the highest tax burden since the Second World War. This stealth tax has dragged more than five million people into higher bands – three million of them on the lowest incomes, who were previously exempt from paying anything. And from the new tax year in April, a typical family will pay an extra £800 in real terms due to inflation – nearly three times more than th…

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