Cam pledge to ease tax on wealthy; TORIES.Byline: BOB ROBERTS DAVID Cameron The Tory leader said he was ready to keep his promise to cut inheritance tax inheritance tax, assessment made on the portion of an estate received by an individual; it differs from an estate tax, which is a tax levied on an entire estate before it is distributed to individuals. for the very wealthy. He told the BBC's Politics Show: "There's still opportunity to put some taxes up in order to take some taxes down." And in a speech in Cheltenham he warned of big cuts to public services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. if the Tories win power with a "culture of thrift". Minister Alan Johnson said: "He showed that Tory instinct to make the many suffer for tax cuts for the wealthiest." It was also revealed yesterday that Mr Cameron took a "freebie" to apartheid South Africa in 1989 - paid for by a firm which lobbied against sanctions while Nelson Mandela was still in prison. Ex-minister Peter Hain said: "He asks us to judge a leader's character. Gordon Brown was in anti-apartheid at this time, and Cameron had a jolly." CAPTION(S): VOW Cameron yesterday |
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