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Tax allowance for married couples
Do you believe that married couples should receive a tax allowance?
Conservative September 2013 that the Prime Minister announced that from April 2015 spouses and civil partners would be allowed to transfer £1,000 of their own allowance to their partner – provided neither of them were higher rate taxpayers. www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/sn04392.pdf
Labour The shadow chancellor described the transferable tax allowance for married couples - due to come into force in April 2015 - as "perverse and unfair". http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/ed-balls-labour-would-ditch-married-couples-tax-break-9190909.html
Liberal Democrat You don't build a fairer society by using the tax system to favour one type of family over another. We should support all families, not just the minority of married ones where one person stays at home Source: Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson Stephen Williams http://www.libdems.org.uk/marriage_tax_break_is_wrong_priority
SNP "In a time of tight resources we do not believe it is right to go ahead with David Cameron’s married couples tax allowance: a policy that discriminates against widows, single parent families and which only benefits one-third of married couples." Source: Alex Salmond, SNP website, http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2014/apr/first-minister-alex-salmond-snp-conference-address
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